Tim Davis, Foreign Service Officer

My former colleague and A-100 classmate Tim Davis, currently posted in Iraq, is featured on the State Department's website this month. The page contains both a short bio and an interview with Tim.

Tim is a former Marine, a dedicated officer and an All-Around Good Guy, exactly the kind of guy you want representing the United States abroad. I can also tell you that if the you-know-what ever hit the fan, he is also the kind of guy you'd want to have your back, and not just because he is by far the largest man in the attached photo (though that is part of it!).

I post this both because I want you to visit the State Dept site and get to know Tim better, and also because I get a lot of inquiries from people who want to know what kind of people join the Foreign Service. I'm no expert and, God knows, I have my own issues with the FS culture, but in my personal experience the people I got to know during my all-too-short time there were very much like Tim.

The kind of people who will walk into a combat zone to help organize an election or show up for work on the visa line despite being badly beaten and robbed the night before in a dangerous Latin American city.