Q course, FAO, PSYOP... to the field
Some of the threads got moved around a bit with the reorg here at SWJ. I thought that people in this part of the discussion board would be interested in my book. A big part of it describes the courses I took at SWC, and how they affected subsequent work in the field (in Central America).
See: http://www.contracross.com
Q Course, FAO, PSYOP... to the field
Yes, the transition from the U.S. military to the State Department is an interesting one. Two very differenct cultures. Someone wrote a paper entitled "State is from Venus, DOD is from Mars." It described some of the more obvious and apparent differences, but because the authors had never themselves been in the green machine, they really didn't understand how things look from that perspective.
My book does discuss a lot of this.
http://www.contracross.com