The Foreign Service Journal, May 2016

Cover 1
Contents 5
Focus on Life After the Foreign Service 20
Retirement Planning 101 20
Retiring Early and Finding Your “Ever After” 24
From Consul General to Police Volunteer 28
Playing the “REA” Game—FS Work in Retirement 31
It Takes a Village 34
What We’re Doing Now 37
Feature 59
Delivering Foreign Agricultural Aid to Africa—What Works? 59
AFSA News 65
Chiefs-of-Mission Breakfast 65
USAID Administrator Calls for Full OCP 65
VP Voice State—Avoiding the Overpayment Hassle 66
VP Voice USAID—Federal Student Loan Repayment Program 67
VP Voice FAS—Self Help 68
AFSA Honors Sinclaire Language Award Recipients 68
AFSA Governing Board Meeting 69
Retiree Corner 70
Partners in Global Education 72
Keene Scholarship Established 72
Strengthening Overseas Security 72
Columns 7
President’s Views: Structuring the Conversation 7
Letter from the Editor: Here’s to Life After the Foreign Service 8
Speaking Out: Hippocrates and Hobbes, Assad and ISIS 17
Reflections: Israelit Friedhof—A Forgotten Cemetery in Vienna 88
Departments 9
Letters 9
Talking Points 12
Books 73
In Memory 75
Local Lens 90
Marketplace 81
Classifieds 81
Real Estate 84
Index to Advertisers 87

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