text: In reply to message22987: "Appointees to the NSA are to excepted positions and they are required to serve ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD at the discretion of the Director." Well I guess they can get me for treason now. LOL! I was recruited by the NSA and CIA after I attended a Summer Slavic Language Institute in Russian in the Summer of 1977. First I was to attend the Defense Language Institute at Monterey for a year or two. Then dropped there. My parents said they would disown me. "Nice Jewish boys do not become spies!" I went into my dad's embroidery business. Fast forward to Israel, 1990, and the Mossad tries to recruit me to "serve" in Iraq. Remind me to tell you that story in person one day.