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26JAN2026 IWC Board

sumorocky said:
So I was selected for IP this time around but was already shot down from IP due to the T5 TS Clearance pre-screening. I am a US born citizen and my father is a US citizen born in S. Korea and my mother is a US green card holder born in S. Korea. They are married and I have not spoken to my parents in over a year as they both could be deceased already. I have ZERO contact with them and have never even left the country once in my life BUT the Navy investigator has already "not recommended" me for a clearance. I am sad, disappointed and to be honest heart broken. It is what it is. It is crazy to think about considering I have no financial or emotional relations with my parents or any foreign countries. S. Korea being an ally of the US makes no difference I guess. My recruiter has tried escalating the situation through the chain of command for a waiver but was already denied within a span of 7 days.

Not sure what to do other then apply for SWO at this point considering Supply is insanely backed up. Either way, very disappointed and a bit disheartened but we move forward.

Good luck and congrats to others who make it through.
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This is really concerning for me. I am in the SNA process, and I have not rejected outright. With both being TS designators, should I be worried about getting rejected for MCWO outright. Why is TS for pilot different from TS of a IWC designator?
 
aagmanrelan said:
This is really concerning for me. I am in the SNA process, and I have not rejected outright. With both being TS designators, should I be worried about getting rejected for MCWO outright. Why is TS for pilot different from TS of a IWC designator?
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Didn’t you just say you wanted to be in the air national guard a few weeks ago?
 
aagmanrelan said:
This is really concerning for me. I am in the SNA process, and I have not rejected outright. With both being TS designators, should I be worried about getting rejected for MCWO outright. Why is TS for pilot different from TS of a IWC designator?
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Because the TS things that a pilot needs to know are much, much different from what someone in the IWC needs to know.
 
number9 said:
Because the TS things that a pilot needs to know are much, much different from what someone in the IWC needs to know.
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Ok I understand
So it is not a guaranteed thing to even get to the IWC board
If this is indeed the case, then I don’t think I can get any cyber position, even in the guard, because they’ll all be TS as well
 
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number9 said:
Because the TS things that a pilot needs to know are much, much different from what someone in the IWC needs to know.
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This is not at all how that works. A clearance is a clearance, and if you failed an investigation for a certain level of clearance, you will not obtain it in another designator. What you are talking about is "Need To Know" and this only applies once you actually have the clearance.

 
CTNtoCWT said:
…A clearance is a clearance, and if you failed an investigation for a certain level of clearance, you will not obtain it in another designator…
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The IWC’s in-house suitability screening before even submitting someone for an investigation is the complicating layer your take here is missing. Yes, a clearance denial in adjudication is generally the final show-stopper, but if the IWC’s screeners don’t find an applicant’s background favorable on the front-end, they don’t even submit that person to DCSA for investigation. No investigation, no adjudication (and hence, no assessment of how risk-mitigating factors would actually impact the final clearance determination).

Not to put too fine a point on this, but there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence posted on this site and elsewhere to suggest the IWC’s internal screeners aren’t too worried about deeming applicants “unsuitable” for TS investigations (especially on account of foreign family contacts) who’d otherwise have likely made it through the investigation and adjudication process just fine if they were actually submitted to DCSA. Even a five minute jaunt down the r/SecurityClearance subreddit turns up plenty of posts from verified investigators who’ve generally been baffled by green-side screeners’ tendency to nuke folks’ packets before even sending them up for investigation.
 
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Gandalf_Actual said:
The IWC’s in-house suitability screening before even submitting someone for an investigation is the complicating layer your take here is missing. Yes, a clearance denial in adjudication is generally the final show-stopper, but if the IWC’s screeners don’t find an applicant’s background favorable on the front-end, they don’t even submit that person to DCSA for investigation. No investigation, no adjudication (and hence, no assessment of how risk-mitigating factors would actually impact the final clearance determination).
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Thank you - this is what I was getting at.
 
number9 said:
Thank you - this is what I was getting at.
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But my investigation has already started with DCSA, I had all my interviews 2 months ago with the investigator. This happened because I initially submitted for SNA, now if I switch over to the MCWO board will they make me do the pre-screen again?
 
aagmanrelan said:
…if I switch over to the MCWO board will they make me do the pre-screen again?
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I don’t know the substance of your previous interviews or what DCSA is already processing for your SNA bid (and this likely isn’t the forum to ventilate those anyways), so your recruiter’s still going to be your best POC for what you’ll need to submit for MCWO consideration.

All I can say for sure is that the IWC does have its own screening hurdles to satisfy its more restrictive internal guidelines, so just be flexible (and candid) if/when you’re asked to fill out additional screening forms or sit through a few more interviews.
 
Gandalf_Actual said:
I don’t know the substance of your previous interviews or what DCSA is already processing for your SNA bid (and this likely isn’t the forum to ventilate those anyways), so your recruiter’s still going to be your best POC for what you’ll need to submit for MCWO consideration.

All I can say for sure is that the IWC does have its own screening hurdles to satisfy its more restrictive internal guidelines, so just be flexible (and candid) if/when you’re asked to fill out additional screening forms or sit through a few more interviews.
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YEs I have texted and emailed my recruiter to pull out my SNA package and put me in for the MCWO board,
Lets see what happens
 
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