Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
What exactly is your status? Are you active duty, reserve, ROTC, OTS, ect.?
If you are in the process of interviewing, I would contact a recruiter and be very honest with them. Have your paperwork for proof. Honesty is the best policy with these folks.
off the street reserves slot. I was thinking of letting the recruiter in on the situation as well.. The thing is, does the recruiter have control over the background check or does someone else(s) conduct it?
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Yeah, have all of your ducks in a row. If you're serious about the military (I assume you are) see if you can borrow money from relatives to keep yourself out a default situation until you are drawing military pay (at which point you should be able to keep up with reasonable bills).
The security clearance background check is the highest hurdle, but there are probably no military jobs you would want to do which don't require a clearnce.
I defaulted not because I neglected my bills... it's the bank screwed up somehow. They told me they are going to fix it, but that takes time and I'm worried it will mess with my background check if doesn't get fixed before they run the check on me.
Out of curiosity, what else does a security clearance background check entail? are they going to interrogate my neighbors from 10 years ago?