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The Foreign Service Journal, May 2016 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION MAY 2016 THE NEXT ADVENTURE LIFE AFTER THE FOREIGN SERVICE IDENTIFYING VITAL INTERESTS ON POKHARA LAKE AFSA MEMBERSHIP EVEN MORE VALUABLE IN RETIREMENT AFSA is the strong voice protecting the Foreign Service and FS retirement benefits. Having dedicated your career to the Foreign Service, you care about preserving your Foreign Service legacy. AFSA is your indispensable partner in retirement, but your membership does not continue automatically. To stay plugged in to the FS community, please contact [email protected]. Advocacy To protect your federal benefits, AFSA has partnered with like-minded organizations to magnify our presence on Capitol Hill, with the administration and to the American public. Guidance AFSA helps you navigate retirement issues to get the most from your benefits—annuities, FEHB and Medicare, LTC, TSP, Social Security, taxes, WAE/REA, even assuring your survivors their benefits. Information The Foreign Service Journal, AFSA Retiree Newsletter and Daily Media Digest keep you fully informed on issues important to you. Networking AFSA keeps you in touch with both active-duty and retired colleagues right from your smart phone. Our online directory is a valuable benefit of membership! You can also participate in the online AFSA Community forum discussions from anywhere in the world. Outreach AFSA promotes the crucial role of diplomacy, reinforces the Foreign Service’s identity and core values, and builds esprit de corps. Retired members play a vital role in this through the AFSA Speakers Bureau and Road Scholar programs. Questions on joining or benefits? Visit us online at www.afsa.org or email us at [email protected]. FOREIGN May 2016 SERVICE Volume 93, No. 4 AFSA NEWS FOCUS ON LIFE AFTER THE FOREIGN SERVICE Chiefs-of-Mission Breakfast /65 Retirement Planning 101 / 20 USAID Administrator Calls Life after the Foreign Service begins with planning. Here’s how to get started. for Full OCP /65 BY JOHN K. NALAND VP Voice State—Avoiding the Overpayment Hassle /66 Retiring Early and Finding Your “Ever After” / 24 VP Voice USAID—Federal Student Loan Repayment Program / 67 Early, voluntary retirement can open the door to pursue your dreams. VP Voice FAS—Self Help /68 BY DEAN J. HAAS AFSA Honors Sinclaire Language From Consul General to Police Volunteer / 28 Award Recipients / 68 AFSA Governing Board Meeting / 69 Police work offered me a way to keep on watching that endless parade of human experience that I loved as a consular officer. Retiree Corner / 70 BY ANN B. SIDES Partners in Global Education / 72 Keene Scholarship Established / 72 Playing the “REA” Game—FS Work in Retirement / 31 Strengthening Overseas Security / 72 Re-employment as an annuitant is an important option for retirees. Here’s how it works. COLUMNS BY LAWRENCE COHEN President’s Views /7 Structuring the Conversation It Takes a Village / 34 BY BARBARA STEPHENSON A growing trend helps Foreign Service retirees to finally settle down. Letter from the Editor / 8 Here’s to Life After the Foreign Service BY MARTHA THOMAS BY SHAWN DORMAN Speaking Out /17 What We’re Doing Now / 37 Hippocrates and Hobbes, Assad and ISIS BY FORMER AND RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE BY RAYMOND SMITH Reflections / 88 Israelit Friedhof: FEATURES A Forgotten Cemetery in Vienna BY JEFFREY GLASSMAN Delivering Foreign Agricultural Aid to Africa— DEPARTMENTS What Works? / 59 Letters / 9 The record of U.S. agricultural development assistance in Africa over the years is Talking Points / 12 uneven. Here’s how involving agribusiness and trade associations can help. Books / 73 In Memory / 75 BY BARRY HILL Local Lens /90 MARKETPLACE Classifieds / 81 Real Estate / 84 Index to Advertisers / 87 On the Cover: After the Foreign Service—clockwise, from top left: Brian Carlson, pilot, and his Cirrus SR-22 airplane; Juan Becerra, front left, on assignment as a re-employed annui- tant in Brazzaville; Robert H. Curtis, at right, karate instructor; Diana Page, cook, reader and opinionated citizen resident in Maine and Chile, with her husband in the Atacama region of Chile; W. Gary Gray, United Nations official in East Timor; and, Deborah Hart, a certified permaculture designer and primal blueprint expert, doing volunteer work with Interfaith Food Shuttle. All photos courtesy of the named individuals. Some of the retired FS members pictured here do not have essays in this issue; their stories will appear in Part II of “What We’re Doing Now” in the July-August FSJ. 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