In terms of past drug and alcohol use, if there hasn’t been enough time mitigated, will they more than likely hit me with suitability denial instead of getting to the point of a full clearance denial?
I have a CJO with a three letter and, without going over everything, will sum up the best I can:
DUI in July 2023 that was dropped with no conviction due to completing ARD program for first time offense. But that was a bad time and my drinking led to a firing from a job shortly after because I smelled like alcohol. It was a bad period of time where things fell apart quickly in a couple months before I got my act together and stopped drinking and smoking. That would okay if that was it, but…
I experimented heavily with everything in high-school and undergrad. While most of that falls well beyond ten years ago, before and during grad school I microdosed shrooms a few times at concerts and there was some blow involved in the summer of 2022. Any of that is at least four years old, but it certainly paints a pattern…
I’m not worried about my chances right now. I am really just thinking about future chances. I’d like to give it a go with this offer because I have good mitigating factors (counseling, extended sobriety, never touching anything again, etc.), but I’m debating if I should even take the CJO if it ends up being a denial for a clearance and giving me a black mark for future employment.
So if they look at all this at the very beginning, and they will hear ALL of it, will they more than likely just say no, and hit me with a suitability denial? Or could the investigation go on to the end and then finish in a straight up clearance denial?