Travis Tiner
New Member
I am trying to become a naval aviator. I am currently in Texas A&M's ROTC program, and I heard that during flight school they conduct an FBI background check. My criminal and civil records are clean, but I have one hospitalization that I'm not sure if I should tell them about, or if they will ask consent for medical records and find out. I was hospitalized for a psychotic episode induced by stress, lack of sleep, and lack of eating. It was my first college semester, I was taking 18 credit hours, and I tried to cram three weeks of work into three days drinking nothing but coffee and energy drinks before midterms and pretty much snapped. I don't want to hide anything on my background, especially if they find something I am trying to hide, which seems even worse than telling them about, but I don't want to ruin my dream of becoming a fighter pilot by telling them something that, in my humble opinion, is irrelevant, which might potentially drop me out of flight school. So my question is, does the FBI request consent to search medical records on SNAs during flight school? And would this episode be grounds to keep me from becoming a pilot for the Navy?