MQ-911 is a prerequisite for this course. The Security Overseas Seminar programs reduce anxiety by making the threats known and offering successful tips to avoid those threats. SOS is required for all foreign affairs agency employees going overseas for the first time. SOS or ASOS must be taken every five years in order to meet the Department's requirements for security training. Name, date of birth, Social Security Number, and daytime phone number of the family member and the name, Social Security Number, Agency, and post of assignment of the employee are required for registration.
Repatriation is difficult for a number of reasons.
For an employee, it typically means a reduction in both the responsibility and the independence of the employee's work environment. For all family members, it means coming back to a place that you know and remember very well. Our country's culture changes. Every year at the Briefing Center, we go through and develop a list of new words, ideas, products that anyone in America will have been exposed to and perhaps absorbed, that people re-patriating from overseas may find strange. Maybe it's this year's hot Christmas toy.