re: State Department evacuating non essential personnel out Haiti.

When there was all the reconstruction after the big earthquake years back, State Department wanted me to go down there to handle some management oversight at several spots around the country. I was asked because I was semi conversant in Cajun French and they figured I could talk to the locals in their gibberish Creole. It was a voluntary posting. I said sure. I want an armored vehicle of some kind (HUMVEE), authorization to carry a weapon and sleeping quarters on Embassy grounds inside the secure perimeter.

They responded with no weapon, a commercial open top Jeep and a room in a local hotel.

I told them frick No.