[Melian]

Spanberger, who worked for the CIA for eight years, is serving alongside two other former agency officers: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), 42, an analyst who deployed to Iraq three times and won a seat representing Michigan’s 8th District by beating a Republican incumbent; and Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tex.), 41, who worked undercover in the Middle East and South Asia, and has served Texas’s 23rd District since 2015....

This year’s Congress includes at least 10 others besides Spanberger, Slotkin and Hurd who have worked with classified material in the military or at the National Security Council, according to the public affairs analytics firm Quorum....

But even though Spanberger is reveling in her new public role — one of her latest Instagram photos shows her and her husband and three daughters clad in striped Christmas pajamas — she still keeps secrets. She can’t say where exactly in Western Europe she served. She can’t reveal her cover story when she served abroad, nor can she say what she did on “the West Coast” for the agency. She can’t even explain the symbols on a gold challenge coin she earned after completing her CIA training in 2007.

The tiny memento, which she keeps in a dresser drawer with her engagement ring, shows an eagle and a torch, with the numbers 20-339 on the back.

What do the numbers signify?

She won’t say.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/when-ex-spies-go-rogue-by-becoming-lawmakers/2019/01/01/9890c4da-095c-11e9-a3f0-71c95106d96a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.364b48870b03

[Melian]

The tiny coin memento, which Spanberger keeps in a dresser drawer with her engagement ring, shows an eagle and a torch, with the numbers 20-339 on the back.

Autists, what do the numbers signify?

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Spanberger, who worked for the CIA for eight years,
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Thank you for posting...didn’t know about her before...

[reed13k]

I’m guessing the 20-339 signifies the CIA graduation class she was in. 339 being the 339th class out of Camp Peary. Peary was closed to the public starting in 1951 so that would mean an average of about 6 classes a year and an average time frame of 8 1/2 weeks per class if they didn’t overlap. Based on how Navy training commands operated while I’m in I’m guessing they currently run 3-4 classes at a time starting 1 new class per month or quarter.

Could also be the 339th class since 2000. I suppose the real question then isn’t what the numbers represent, but what other symbols are on the coin.