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"You've got a job if you've got a clearance"

Army Times - 8AUG05 issue

August 19, 2005 4:42:28 PM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums
An interesting article that puts the lie to what many in my unit have been telling soldiers who are getting out: "Intelligence jobs are drying up."

Granted, many jobs that require clearances aren't strictly jobs in the intelligence field. Most of them do stem from the events on and after 9/11, though. The article is a good overview of what the three levels of clearance (Confidential, Secret, Top Secret) can get you, and even touches on the two other classifications (Special Access Programs and Sensitive Compartmentalized Information) and the implications of those.

The article does state that, "According to Transition Assistance Online Link ... the top 10 defense contractors hiring security cleared personnel are:
Boeing
General Dynamics
General Electric
General Motors
Lockheed
Martin Marietta
McDonnell Douglas
Northrop Grumman
Raytheon
United Technologies"

Start early, says the article. Jobs that require a clearance pay higher than jobs that don't, says the article.
Seriously, how were the soldiers supposed to be dissuaded?

And, honestly, who can take the statement, "There will be less need for Arabic linguists in the near future," seriously? (This last was quoted not from the article, but from a senior NCO attempting to convince a junior NCO to not get out of the military. "Near future" is a paraphrase, but it referred to a period of the next two-three years, and the statement was made last year... less need for Arabic speakers by the end of 2006?)
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Reply #1 August 21, 2005 10:49:26 PM
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So there I was, looking at my recent entries and I found a comment from you. WOW! Seriously, thanks for the comment. And the compliment on the layout.

I hope that you get your ETS straightened out. soon.

We should keep in touch more.

Do I know this senior NCO who was telling the other this ridiculous statement?

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Reply #2 August 23, 2005 8:17:17 AM
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Do I know this senior NCO who was telling the other this ridiculous statement?


No, they showed up quite a bit after you left.

I check out your blog every so often, but my comments would just be "Hi, how are you" sort of things. Maybe I'll drop more of those your way, anyway.
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Reply #3 October 22, 2005 11:15:41 PM
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Your original comment is absolutely true, except when a good mutual friend and I went to Dallas in February for a "cleared" job fair, it was nothing but aerospace companies looking for computer wonks and engineers. They were not looking for linguists or analysts. At all. They looked at me funny when I told them I didn't have a degree in aerospace engineering.

Just a word to the warning, those clearance jobs are out there (I have one), but they're not everywhere!
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