Barnes, Thomas J.

The author embarked on a 44 year career, all but ten abroad, as an Army Officer in Korea and Japan. He next spent almost a quarter-century in the Foreign Service, principally in Southeast Asia. His first assignment to Vietnam was as Vice Counsel in Saigon. Subsequently. he was Principle Officer of the Hue Consulate; Province Senior Advisor, Binh Long; Associate Director, Region II (Nhatrang) of the Agency for International Development; and Consul General at Can Tho. Finally he spent a decade with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, mainly in but initially in Somalia, and four ye...