Mental Health and Marines' Clearances

An announcement by the U.S. Marine Corps published by the U.S. Federal News Service on January 28 attempted to reassure Marines who seek mental health counseling that their security clearances were safe. According to the Adjudicative Guidelines governing security clearance policy, mental health issues can be a reason to deny or revoke clearance. But, the Marine Corps says:

A clearance could be removed following a diagnosis from a duly qualified mental health professional suggesting it, but the initial attempt to begin counseling will not reflect the person in a negative manner.

Unfortunately, ClearedCommunity.com could not locate a publicly-accessible copy of the full article on the Internet. We last reported on the issue of mental health and security clearance here.

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