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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't be a foreign service officer and stay in DC indefinitely.  There is an expectation that you will go overseas.

I don't specifically know divorced families but I know several families with kids with medical needs which prevented most overseas postings.  In one case, the parent became a Canada specialist, which kept them close enough to keep their US specialists.  In the other case the father would alternate between longer posts in DC and short term unaccompanied/hardship posts to places like Afghanistan. [/quote]

Hardship posts can be great for your career and pocketbook.  IME, officers with experience in places like Iraq and Afghanistan advance more quickly.  Plus, since many foreign service officers try to avoid these posts, when you take them, you are seen as having paid your dues when you ask for something you need.  Also, spending time on hardship ties in nicely with taking State/USUN jobs depending upon what your specific hardship post duties were.  [/quote]

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