I ran into a friend of mine last night at a bar. He’s entered the foreign service and his first assigment will send him to Islamabad. He said his next few weeks of training involve:

a) Getting dumped in a suburb town in Virginia while two veteran agents tail him. His job is to figure out who it is that’s tailing him within a couple of days.

b) Driver training, which involves stuff like learning how to crash a car through roadblocks, and learning how keep control of a car while someone’s trying to ram you off the road.

In other words, they’re teaching him how to be Vin Diesel. I’m so very envious.

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