Lowering the minimum CAP membership time to participate in CD missions

[Flying Pig]

I would imagine Section 19-Drug Use and Section 20-Arrests, could raise some flags for immediate DQ and would qualify under the "true professional" statement.  With your separate attachment describing in detail the nature of your arrests and/or convictions I would say DQ'ing someone at the CAP level with sufficient information allows us to police our own applicants before we send the final batch off to DEA.

It may be interesting to note that for Law Enforcement, if an applicant fails the background you are not told why.  You have no recourse to find out why you failed the background.  You are just told that you don't qualify.  You may have a background investigator that might "suggest" areas of improvement if their are any, but you will not get a letter stating that you were DQ'd for "X reason."  You can appeal, but in 11 years of police work  I don't know of anyone who has been accepted on a background appeal.  So I would say our customers aren't subjecting us to anything they don't already do to their own applicants.

[lordmonar]

People who can't complete paperwork correctly, fly to standards, be true professionals all the time, etc. are non-select.   Our paperwork is discoverable evidence in a court of law so it must be letter perfect and complete.

Sir, you can tell all that (especially the "true professional") from the application?  Can you give some very specific reasons for denial??  I can see denial if the application were completed in pink crayon, but wow. 

Filling out the paper work properly and getting it signed by the wing level OPR is just the first step in the CD vetting process.  If you can do that right....you probabaly can do a CD mission right.

The DEA screeners do not have a lot of time to go over the paper work...if there is something wrong/missing/questionable...the will just deny the application with not explanation.  They don't bother asking for a resubmittal as it is not cost effective.  Even of AD I have seen people get denied for a special Digraph compartment because there was a minor issue with the paperwork/investigation/NAC...but the OPR did not have time to wait for a resubmittal/reinvestigation.