Sanctions for Foreign Service Dodgers

A peek into the assignment of embassy assignments by the United States Department offers an AP report of October 27, 2007, US to Order Diplomats to Serve in Iraq. The largest American embassy in a war-zone will no longer be staffed by volunteers. Instead, the administration of the Foreign Service resigned itself to assigning unarmed civilians into a combat zone [which] should be done on a voluntary basis, as a speaker for employees put it.

Sanctions await dodgers, the report continues. As stated on State's career site, the department is a #3 Ranked Ideal Employer but that designation is absent from the Foreign Service Office page. -- Clemens Kochinke, Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP, Washington.

Sat, 16:53:46 27 Oct 2007 / / Embassy Law Link

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