NROTC_Marine
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This kind of question may not have much of a place on these forums, but I'm going to take a chance and ask it anyways. I'm currently a college sophomore, and I talked to a Marine Corps OSO officer a while ago about doing PLC or OCS for the next two summers. While I was talking to him, he asked me if I'd done any drugs before. Now I smoked a little weed freshman year and even the beginning of this year, but it's been completely recreational and I can count on two hands how many times I've ever done it. I was under the impression that any drug use would DQ me, so my immediate reaction was to say no.
A while later, when I was at MEPS, I thought the same about drug use and figured I might as well stay consistent in my answering and put down that I had never done any drugs in my life on the form. I figured, hey, it'd been a few months since I'd smoked up, and I was most likely gonna stop forever for the Marines. I wasn't worried about the drug test, and it's been about a month since MEPS, and I haven't heard anything, which I assume is a good sign.
About a week after MEPS, though, I was thinking about doing NROTC and talked to the guy on campus. He also asked if I'd done drugs, which I said no to, but he added that it didn't really matter if I did. After I heard that last part, I did some searching, and so my question is:
At this point, after MEPS, would coming clean with everything be the best option? Apart from this, I've been completely honest with everything throughout the process and have a perfect record both criminally and medically. I know being honest is definitely the best moral option, especially since it's only been very occasional experimental use, but it just seems that lying on paper might have been a step too far.
A while later, when I was at MEPS, I thought the same about drug use and figured I might as well stay consistent in my answering and put down that I had never done any drugs in my life on the form. I figured, hey, it'd been a few months since I'd smoked up, and I was most likely gonna stop forever for the Marines. I wasn't worried about the drug test, and it's been about a month since MEPS, and I haven't heard anything, which I assume is a good sign.
About a week after MEPS, though, I was thinking about doing NROTC and talked to the guy on campus. He also asked if I'd done drugs, which I said no to, but he added that it didn't really matter if I did. After I heard that last part, I did some searching, and so my question is:
At this point, after MEPS, would coming clean with everything be the best option? Apart from this, I've been completely honest with everything throughout the process and have a perfect record both criminally and medically. I know being honest is definitely the best moral option, especially since it's only been very occasional experimental use, but it just seems that lying on paper might have been a step too far.