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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Indeed, the life insurance FSOs have does not cover them if they're killed in Iraq.
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Interestingly, the same anonymous commenter whom I quoted above later says this re the life-insurance issue:
- Just to follow up, you are quite right that these sorts of problems are very solvable. As an even worse example, regular federal civil servants were very reluctant to volunteer for Iraq postings in 2003-2004 because it was widely but incorrectly believed, including by many managers, that your job-based life insurance wasn't valid in Iraq, due to an "acts of war" exclusion. I gather that isn't true when stationed abroad on official business. It took a year or two (!) for the administration to clue in that the issue was scaring away some volunteers and to get correct information widely disseminated.
This is coming from Dan Drezner's blog.
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