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[MADem]

175. He had failed of selection TWICE. That's why he lost his clearance.

USN selection process is "up or out." Two tries, and then you fly. He'd been in the Navy for over a decade, there is no way that he didn't know this. There's also no way that he could have avoided the unfortunate truth that one is more likely to be struck by lightning than to be selected on a second go-round. It's the very rare exception, not the rule.

He had already been told, once, that he wasn't promotion material. A full year later, he was told, again, that he didn't make the cut. Based on his assignments and fitreps, he must have had a sense that he wasn't going to be one of those "rare exceptions" that make the cut after the fist FoS.

Once he failed of selection again, the clock starts ticking and he has to outprocess from the service. When one outprocesses, one leaves one's assigned command and that security clearance goes bye-bye. You don't have a need to know, so you don't have access. That's just the way it is. It's not personal. A clearance isn't like a plaque for one's "I Love Me" wall. It doesn't stay active if the person who held it isn't on the rolls.

You lose access to classified material when you retire, too.

You do know he spent just two years working at LAPD, and his last day of work was in 2008? Long time to hold a grudge, absent any mental illness--IMO.

He also, after he failed in his grievance against the police department, took the LAPD to court--his case was dismissed. That was a couple of years ago. If the Navy took his clearance for "filing a false report" they should have taken it a few years ago.

His last day in the USN was 1 February. He knew he was a FoS in December at the latest, and that he would have to go. He also had to know, if he ever picked up a Navy Times, that there's force shaping going on across all branches and it's only going to get worse, and he stood a better chance of having Donald Trump declare him Miss America than get promoted on the second go-round. Standards are getting tougher too (particularly weight and fitness standards). If the LAPD were going to get him "fired" they would have done it in 2009--and he never would have had a promotion board in 2011 or 2012.

I wouldn't be surprised if his outprocessing from USN "set him off" but he was barking up the wrong tree to blame LAPD for USN's decision to fail to promote him, not once, but twice. He was in "victim mode" and looking for someone to blame, and the balance of his mind was most assuredly disturbed.