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From: Robert Morecook
Dated: August 24, 2018
Not automatic. But to be a journalist an agency Check was done and we had secret level clearances. Even so I know I never saw any classified data. I of course was enlisted. As you just read, Moody, a captain, had top secret.
From: Dan Slentz
Dated: August 24, 2018
They let you in the BX/PX didn't they?? In the 1980's, they gave us "secret" to "see stuff" in Germany (TDY). I think that was one step above the Spanish nationals that cleaned around the base.
From: Michael Goucher
Dated: August 24, 2018
I had a secret level clearance, but never handled anything more that "confidential."
From: Rodger McKnight
Dated: August 24, 2018
Think I had some type of higher because I would connect the teletype to crypto gear and the transmitter at Fort Bragg in NC before I was sent to Nam.
From: Brian Wickham
Dated: August 24, 2018
I was told at Ft. Gordon that as a Broadcast Specialist I had a secret clearance but I never saw any written proof of that.
From: Tom Benson Benintende
Dated: August 24, 2018
I had one, but can’t remember level
From: Rick Fredericksen
Dated: August 17, 2018
I'm curious. Did we, as AFVN staff, automatically have any level of security clearance?
From: Jim White
Dated: August 17, 2018
Rick, I don't remember if everyone at AFVN was required to have a security clearance or not--I had a TS clearance for 10 or more years when I got to AFVN. I can image that everyone had to have at least a confidential clearance which was "automatic" in the sense that it required only a records check at the MACV level. TS and S clearances were never automatically given but it some positions were automatically required. A TS required a very thorough background check in my day and this check was repeated every so often. I remember my Dad writing me once in a while that our neighbors were "again being asked about me" whenever my TS clearance had to be re-validated. Jim White
From: Bill Altman
Dated: Augustl17, 2018
Hi gang , I believe (in the army at least) any soldier with 703 broadcast, or 701 information, MOS were required to have a secret level clearance to keep the MOS. Bill Altman
From: Rick Fredericksen
Dated: August 17, 2018
I seem to remember having some clearance, but do not ever remember having applied for one or being asked questions. I attended a secure meeting at MACV one time--cannot even remember the subject.
From: Randall Moody
Dated: August 24, 2018
Robert Morecook Thanks! Got all my stuff out from 68-69 for a class I am doing here in Lincoln, Nebraska this fall. Rick Fredericksen is joining me for one of them. Will be great to catch up once again!
Security Clearances for AFVN Personnel
August 2018
[Taken from Facebook.]
From: Rick Fredericksen
Dated: August 24, 2018
Just looked at DD214 and don't see anything there.
From: Robert Morecook
Dated: August 24, 2018
Hooah! Good to see you here Randall. You are one of my heroes.
From: Randall Moody
Dated: August 24, 2018
I had a "Top Secret." Its on my press credentials.
From: Gary Huber
Dated: August 24, 2018
Probably "SECRET ", which would have been typical at the time.
From: Rick Fredericksen
Dated: August 24, 2018
Randall Moody I have 7 cards/passes, from MACV payroll and meal pass, to Vietnamese and Marine Corps press passes, alas, not the one shown above. Consensus seems to be I probably had at least a "secret" clearance.