ADM Olson is proposing a 'new' depoyment of SOF whereas individuals will deploy to a country with their families off and on for their entire careers- extremely similar to FAOs. The key advantage to this deployment is developing SME's, cultural intelligence, and more importantly developing personal relationships.
We used to do that with the SF groups and I would guess we will resume somewhere down the road. A number of Africa DATTs and Operations Coordinators got into the embassy cycle this way.

On ME as a whole, it is probably still doable, depending on specific country. Jordan, Tunisia, and Morocco come to mind as good prospects. The ODC in Egypt is huge.

I am all for it.

Tom