AFVN Group Conversations

    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.