Whoa! Interesting comment!
In Teheran in 1979, the “students” took over our embassy for the first time.. Two of my leaders came out in Jan 79. They looked around, weighed the pros and cons, and after the students were in our SCIF, they decided to pull us outin Feb 79. At that time, I was stationed in Rome, and we handled the evac of our dependents that transited there and at Naples. Some of the MSG from Rome were sent to Teheran to bolster the MSG Det in Tehran. In March of 1979, the situation had settled down and the embassy was a bare-bones operation, until they came back to stay in Nov 79. There are some missions where there is a reasonable expectation of rescue should the balloon go up. Teheran was not one of them. Most officers volunteer to go to some of them knowing that they can’t count on the cavalry showing up.if you can’t handle that possibility, then perhaps they should consider another line of work. My last post was Havana was considered a hardship post but we did have a reasonable expectation of the cavalry coming over the ridge.
In Teheran in 1979, the “students” took over our embassy for the first time.. Two of my leaders came out in Jan 79. They looked around, weighed the pros and cons, and after the students were in our SCIF, they decided to pull us outin Feb 79. At that time, I was stationed in Rome, and we handled the evac of our dependents that transited there and at Naples. Some of the MSG from Rome were sent to Teheran to bolster the MSG Det in Tehran. In March of 1979, the situation had settled down and the embassy was a bare-bones operation, until they came back to stay in Nov 79. There are some missions where there is a reasonable expectation of rescue should the balloon go up. Teheran was not one of them. Most officers volunteer to go to some of them knowing that they can’t count on the cavalry showing up.if you can’t handle that possibility, then perhaps they should consider another line of work. My last post was Havana was considered a hardship post but we did have a reasonable expectation of the cavalry coming over the ridge.