"I have signed up for the pre-deployment training available to me – including the 3.5 hours (yes hours) of Arabic language training that is apparently deemed sufficient to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq."
John K. Naland
Foreign Service Officer & AFSA President
Reflections│ Precious Times
Foreign Service Journal, March 2009 (p.76)
Note: FSJ is now in Folio format, so you either read it online or you download an executable file.