• A foreign area officer (FAO) is a commissioned officer from any of the six branches of the United States Armed Forces who is a regionally focused expert...
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  • Cryptologic Warfare Officers, Information Operations Officers, Foreign Area Officers, Public Affairs Officers, Naval Oceanographers, Information Professionals...
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    Alexander Vindman (category United States Army officers)
    infantry officer, Vindman received a Purple Heart medal for wounds he received from an IED attack in the Iraq War in 2004. Vindman became a foreign area officer...
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  • 48X Foreign Area Officer Officer 49A Operations Research/Systems Analysis 49W Trained, ORSA 49X Untrained, ORSA Officer 50A Force Development Officer 51A...
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    instructor at Ranger School between 1992 and 1994. He entered the Russian Foreign Area Officer program in 1995, and graduated from Yale University with a Master...
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  • records with General Officers and Colonels, with the exception of MOSs 822X/824X Foreign Area Officers and Regional Affairs Officers. MOSs must be required...
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  • categories of officers required for the billets. The first digit identifies the officer's community. The second and third digits denote the officer's area of specialization...
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  • 1998 to 2013. The DLAB is a required test for officers looking to either join the Foreign Area Officer program or the Olmsted Scholar Program. The required...
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    was a foreign area officer and can speak Spanish. From 2003 until 2006, Smith served in the 1st Marine Division as the Division Operations Officer; Executive...
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  • Public Affairs Officer, Human Resources Officer, and Foreign Area Officer among others. Examples of Staff Corps officers include Supply Corps, Medical Corps...
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    Retrieved 20 October 2016. "Major General Frederick B. Hodges" (PDF). Foreign Area Officer Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 May 2021. Retrieved...
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  • (WMD-CST) 90G0 – General officer 91C0 – Commander 91E0 - Wing Commander Equivalent 91W0 – Wing Commander 92F0 – Foreign Area Officer (FAO) Trainee 92J0 –...
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  • Maintenance Duty Officer (AMDO) Engineering Duty Officer Foreign area officer (Country or Regional Specialists, Non-Intelligence) Human Resources Officer Information...
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    or skill levels. Aeronautical rating badges for pilots, combat systems officers, observers, and air battle managers are awarded at basic, senior, and command...
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    Hickey's next assignments were part of his secondary career field, Foreign Area Officer (Russian linguist) and included the Defense Language Institute in...
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    University – Cambridge, Massachusetts (August 1989 – June 1990) Foreign area officer Course – Ft. Bragg, North Carolina (January 1978 – June 1978) Basic...
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    was re-designated as Military Intelligence. Strategic Intelligence Foreign Area Officer (FAO) Strategist Nuclear and Counterproliferation Force Management...
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    proportion of officers of any European army, at 12.5%, which was at that time considered unreasonably high by many Spanish and foreign observers. Within...
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    he studied in Guangzhou, China. In the Air Force, he was a career foreign area officer, serving several intelligence and international affairs assignments...
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    Independence (1954–1962), the Foreign Legion came close to being disbanded after some officers, men, and the highly decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er...
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  • a Spanish light machine gun Flight Activities Officer, a NASA flight controller Foreign area officer of the United States Armed Forces Fao (god), a god...
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    General Muhammad Moin Khan – General Officer Commanding (GOC), 9th Infantry Division & Area Commander, Savar Area (also Colonel Commandant – Remount Veterinary...
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    Role in the Opening of the Berlin Wall." She was selected for the Foreign Area Officer program in 1993, resulting in her attendance at the Defense Language...
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    Embassy Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt. Hooper was the senior U.S. Army foreign area officer (FAO) and has almost 20 years of security cooperation, security assistance...
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    Resistance and Escape; Foreign Area Officer; Civil Affairs; and Psychological Operations. A few years later, the Noncommissioned Officer Academy was instituted...
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    post is held by an Indian foreign service officer of the rank of secretary to the government of India. Vikram Misri is the foreign secretary since July 2024...
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    of mission, Foreign Service officers, Foreign Service reservists, Foreign Service staff, "alien personnel" (subsequently renamed Foreign Service nationals...
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  • between 75 and 100 attendees. All officers of the ILR are volunteers who hold full-time federal positions elsewhere. The Foreign Service Institute, the National...
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    the special warfare community, Personnel Exchange Program, and foreign area officers through Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California...
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    Derek Harvey (category United States Army officers)
    colonel in 2006 after 26 years service as an intelligence officer and Middle East Foreign Area Officer. Prior to joining DIA as a civilian in early 2006, then...
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