that guy probly worked in one of those buildings on base with no windows in it.
What year would that have been, late 70s maybe?
It's also a great way to make yourself a target for foreign governments. The odds are slim, but still, it would sure be a drag to get kidnapped and tortured over it. Loose lips sink ships, and all.
Maybe things have changed since I retired and I know they have in MANY ways, in fact I barely understand an enlisted or officer when they speak of the current Army, sounds alien to me.Not quite, you can acknowledge that you are cleared Top Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) or Special Intelligence (SI)/TALENT KEYHOLE (TK) as appropriate. You also can say you have/had a Special Background Investigation (SBI) and/or polygraph along with dates of the polygraph; but that's about it. You cannot mention a SAP or other programs however.
People do it all the time on resumes and online job search websites, and there is nothing in the Defense Security Service regulations against it.
The old "I could tell you but I'd have to kill you" line only works in Navy Officer Clubs!
Cheers! M2
I was once waiting at walmart to get new tires (NOTE: do not to go to walmart for tires).
There was an older guy there, mid sixties looking, and we got to talking. He said he went to Nam and that he was a sniper, so I thought to myself "here we go". I asked him what he shot. He said a fifty. I pretty much stopped the conversation after that.
I wasn't in the service, but I come from that type of family, and can sniff BS from a long ways off when it comes to that.
Maybe you should have listed to him some more, you might have learned something..................
Ever heard of a guy named Carlos Hathcock? Does he have any credibility with you???
I know who Hathcock was. And other than Hathcock and the 1 other guy who used a homebrew 50 cal rifle mentioned in this thread, I doubt there wasn't a handfull of guys using 50 cals. Did the guy I talked to serve in Nam? Very likely. Did he use a .50 cal "sniper" rifle? Very very very unlikely.
Maybe things have changed since I retired and I know they have in MANY ways, in fact I barely understand an enlisted or officer when they speak of the current Army, sounds alien to me.
I was taught the only info you give out is that you have a clearance, that is IT! In fact any more than that and why bother to even have a clearance system. If I told you the level of my highest clearance and its modifiers along with even the installation I was at, you are an enemy agent could pinpoint almost exactly what I did.
So if what you said in your post is true then we have no secrets today from anyone....
lol... All my time in the military was spent in buildings with no windows. In fact my desk was inside a safe, and that safe was in a larger safe.I either never saw or paid attention to the building they went into but I vaguely remember hearing something about buildings with no windows.
DittoMost top secret stuff I saw was so boring it isn't worth mentioning at all
lol... All my time in the military was spent in buildings with no windows. In fact my desk was inside a safe, and that safe was in a larger safe.
What the hell do you do if there's a fire?
I've had clearances since the very early 1980s, and it's been pretty much the same every since I was first read in...there has never been a problem letting people know your level of access. Telling someone I have a TS/SCI and work on Lackland doesn't tell them squat about what I do. Plus, if the government really wanted to protect that information, they would make it classified; but for the majority of people it is not.
I went in '67, retired in '94: In about the past say 1/2 dozen years or so I have met more COMBAT/SNIPER/SOCOM (SEAL, RANGER, SF etc etc) than I ever knew or came in contact with in my entire military career, half of which was in a combat TO&E unit.
Wonder if he ever protected "the mayor's " son's anal virginity?His quotes instantly triggered memories of Gecko45.
Run before the halon comes on.What the hell do you do if there's a fire?
The real plan was to line up single file and go out the door, but my office was in the very back of the larger safe. Closing the door and hoping the air doesn't run out was probably the only realistic thing I could have done.Pick a side, close the door.
GREAT friend of mine was SF, 3 Tours in Vietnam, career soldier. But few folks would know what a true hero he was. He was submitted for the CMoH. He rarely wore all his ribbons. Even tho he outranked he and I became close friends.Lol ... and that includes the 5th SFG O'club in Nha Trang...
Run before the halon comes on.
I have a friend who served in Vietnam who told me the best way to spot a fake Nam vet is to ask, "Those MPCs were some bad $#@!ckers, huh?" MPC is a military payment certificate. I tried it on one guy at a bar who had a very dangerous reputation and he looked at me cross, then laughed under his breath and started shaking his head. We later became quite friendly and I told him what it was all about, which made him like me anymore since that told him another Vietnam vet liked me enough to tell me that.