If you get selected for OCS, can you hold out and wait to recieve your top secret security clearance if its required of you before you go off to OCS and get commissioned? I know it can take over a year sometimes to recieve your clearance, but I dont want to already be commissioned and starting my training and invest my time and hard work into something and then not recieve my clearance.
I've read about that happening to people before for whatever reason and then they have to either get reassigned doing something else they dont want to do or they end up getting discharged. Im still young and have time to wait. Can I hold out for my clearance to go through, or do I have to go off to OCS, get commissioned, and then wait for my clearance to go through?
I just want to know if its possible to get my top secret clearance, and especially all my medical stuff OK'd and finalized if I get selected before I get commissioned. I dont want to waste the next 2 years of my life and quit my career path in the civilian world for something I might get disqualified for later on down the road once I am already commissioned and started on my training. Like some grey area in my life that could go either way with the investigator. Or fail an eye exam, like the depth perception test, whcih I hear its a real PITA and lots of people have trouble with it. Thanks in advance.......
I've read about that happening to people before for whatever reason and then they have to either get reassigned doing something else they dont want to do or they end up getting discharged. Im still young and have time to wait. Can I hold out for my clearance to go through, or do I have to go off to OCS, get commissioned, and then wait for my clearance to go through?
I just want to know if its possible to get my top secret clearance, and especially all my medical stuff OK'd and finalized if I get selected before I get commissioned. I dont want to waste the next 2 years of my life and quit my career path in the civilian world for something I might get disqualified for later on down the road once I am already commissioned and started on my training. Like some grey area in my life that could go either way with the investigator. Or fail an eye exam, like the depth perception test, whcih I hear its a real PITA and lots of people have trouble with it. Thanks in advance.......