Map from state.govAll but seven of its 48 posts have hardship pay over 15 percent. Eight receive danger pay. AF posts are also home to many entry-level officers, whose mentoring often suffers in the absence of seasoned supervisors. AF posts share the Department-wide deficiency in mid-level staff and a world-wide deficiency in ICASS staffing in relationship to other agencies’ overseas growth. The problem is exacerbated in AF posts because career and financial rewards are reserved for service in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The difficulty of work was compounded by 76 evacuations due to actual or threatened outbreaks of violence in the last decade alone.
Excerpt from The Bureau of African Affairs: | OIG Report Number ISP-I-09-63 August 2009 | PDF
