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Originally posted by Pandora
Question: when on AD in the field in a foreign country, do you respond with your GUT, true impressions and beliefs or do you tend to pull a "Colin Powell" - and utter what is the diplomatically correct response to tough questions?
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Every SF Group is area oriented which includes both language and cultural training. Area studies for the particular area of concentration exist or are prepared and part of the pre-mission training. Now to answer your question directly, it really depends on the situation at hand but the bottom line here is that whichever choice is made it is made with some sound fundamental background knowledge as to the country, its people, politics, religious bent, and cultural sensitivity. Now this is the preferred goal, however with the OPTEMPO with the GWOT folks that are normally oriented to one area of the world might very well find themselves in any other place both because SF has become the tip of the spear for problem resolution both on the military side and to handle what used to be handled by the feckless State Department . So if you find yourself wandering around Slovenia it might not be unusal to hear some SF troop who has been shifted from his normal area of orientation to a new one to meet someone's contingency plan make a mistake and greet some one by stating, "Buenos Tag".
Jack Moroney