The Foreign Service Journal, December 2004

American Foreign Service Association • December 2004 Inside This Issue: STATE: IRAQ SECURITY......................3 USAID: HONESTY AT WORK..............4 FAMILY MEMBER COLUMN ...............6 SINCLAIRE AWARDS...........................7 DACOR SCHOLARSHIPS.....................7 Q&A: LONG-TERM CARE ....................9 AFSA NEWS T he coming year will mark the 37th anniversary of the establishment of the AFSA Constructive Dissent Awards. The first three dissent awards were created in 1968, a time of great emo- tional turmoil and disagreement among Americans over our government’s poli- cies in Southeast Asia. Unfortunately, our country appears to be experiencing a sim- ilar time of divisiveness and uncertainty today over our foreign policy in Iraq and the war on terror. AFSA is extremelyproudof our dissent awards. “There is noequivalent award that we’re aware of, in any other federal agency,” says AFSA Communications Director Tom Switzer. In 1969, the second year that the awards ceremony was held, Under Secretary Elliot Richardson presented the three AFSAdissent awards to a senior, mid-level and junior officer. “Constructive dissent cannot take place unless it is cou- pledwith imagination, creativity, intellec- tual resourcefulness and, above all, AFSA PRESSES DEPARTMENT ON IRAQ SECURITY First Foreign Service Member Killed in Iraq A FSA and the entire Foreign Service community mourn the loss of an outstanding diplomatic security officer, EdSeitz, killed inBaghdadonOct. 24. Seitzwas the first ForeignServicemem- ber to be killed in Iraq. (See InMemory, p. 66.) At the time of his death, Seitz was at Camp Victory, a military base outside the Green Zone near the Baghdad International Airport. AFSA has shared with State manage- ment on numerous occasions our mem- bers’ concerns about security for Foreign Service personnel in Iraq. AFSA under- stands that thedepartment isworkinghard to create a secure environment in an extremely insecure area, butwehave urged the department to re-evaluate staffing lev- els continually and to expedite all possible security enhancements for ForeignService personnel serving in Iraq. Thedepartment has assured us it is doing both. Following is the text of AFSA’s press Continued on page 4 CALL FOR 2005 AFSA AWARD NOMINATIONS AFSA Seeking a Few Good Risk-Takers ... And the People to Nominate Them BY BARBARA BERGER, PROFESSIONAL ISSUES COORDINATOR Continued on page 5 AGGELER