Originally Posted by
Zapata
Who's to say that, even with a security clearance from the military, one hasn't done anything that was questionable since obtaining the clearance? Military personnel aren't above wrongdoing. Look at it this way. Suppose a pilot was hired and then furloughed from an airline in fairly short order. That pilot had just undergone a background check. Then said pilot gets hired by another airline. Guess what? He or she will have to do it again. In the context of going from one job to another, it is no different from the military.
...Except that we employ thermonuclear weapons on the aircraft we fly in the military. That requires a little more thorough check than the one we go through to get a job at an airline...and it needs to be updated every so often as well. It is, in fact, quite different with regard to the "job" being done.
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