The Foreign Service Journal, January 2003

J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 29 hen I am asked to describe the way Foreign Commercial Service officers — the Foreign Service component of the Department of Commerce — are regarded within that agency, I draw on my experience as a musician for an analogy. A piano player in a college marching band is indeed unique, and perhaps not fully appreciated. And even though he or she is as accomplished a musician as the others are, the choice of instrument is off-putting at best. We in the Foreign Commercial Service can well identify with that analogy. Even though FCSOs have demon- F O C U S O N F C S W Jeff Moores P IANO P LAYERS IN A M ARCHING B AND : FCS O FFICERS AFSA’ S FCS V ICE P RESIDENT COUNTS THE WAYS THAT FCS OFFICERS ARE DIFFERENT FROM THEIR F OREIGN S ERVICE , C IVIL S ERVICE AND PRIVATE SECTOR COLLEAGUES . B Y P ETER F REDERICK