For this first mission, both of the foreign general officers were "playing."
He was appointed a foreign service officer in March 1925.
He came back to the country with a gold medal, the first one given to a foreign officer.
He said that the retired foreign service officers were paid up to $77,000.
It was seen as a way to utilize the military knowledge of foreign officers.
The presence of foreign officers on American bases is nothing new.
And, we are training our foreign commercial service officers to make promoting investment in America a key part of their job.
You were the best foreign service officer in the Orient and everyone knew it.
Officially, it was simply a dinner invitation to a foreign officer.
Some foreign officers proved valuable to the American cause, while others were not useful.