Politics inevitable, but we still need our best people as ambassadors Keith Peterson
Posted12/17/2020 1:00 AM
I worked for an ambassador who had a conversation with a vice admiral who was about to retire after a long career in the U.S. Navy. The ambassador asked him what he planned to do in his retirement and the vice admiral said, Well, I think I might want to be an ambassador.
My ambassador said, that s interesting because I was thinking that when I leave this post that I might want to command a carrier battle group. The vice admiral sputtered, that s ridiculous . one needs training for that, to which my ambassador replied: Exactly.