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When I was in the Army, I was stationed in a communication relay station in Panama with Secret Clearance.

Since I was an E-5, I was the weekend shift supervisor since my staff sgt. had the weekend off.

Sunday afternoon a top secret flash message came in over a non secure teletype from a station on the other side of the canal. Since I didn't have a top secret clearance, I had to call my ssgt at home and he had to come in and handle it.

The following morning we had to file a report with the center's CO. This was scary for me because the next day I was scheduled to fly back to the states for my first leave in almost 2 years and I thought I would be delayed. Anyway, nothing happened and when I got back from leave I had already been upgraded to Top Secret clearance........no big deal.

As a side note, there were a couple guys serving with me with secret clearances whose only reason they were in the Army was because their local judges gave them a choice of jail time or army due to whatever they had been arrested for........LOL!