Baghdad - Post Report Question and Answers
What have been the highlights of your time in this country? Best trips or experiences?
Meaningful work (not everyone has that experience), excellent local staff, great colleagues. - Apr 2019
Good people. Good money. Good work experience. - Jul 2018
There's usually some free time to catch up on your Netflix, but other than that, BDSC doesn't have a whole lot going for it. Unlike other hardships posts, Baghdad is not known for the excellent quality of its personnel. People are here (and specifically at BDSC) for some reason, personal/financial/professional or otherwise. Beware of people who use the tour as an opportunity to re-invent themselves. - Jan 2016
Getting in shape at the gym? Not much to see in this country club prison/embassy. - Feb 2014
Very few. - Jan 2014
Highlights have mainly been the sweet taste of freedom you get immediately upon landing in a country that is not Iraq when you go on R&R/RRB. And trips out to Erbil --- although forewarned is forearmed: the housing at the consulate there is TERRIBLE. - Jan 2013
I have enjoyed the job since you get to do things here that you would never get the chance at another embassy. Things change by the day, and something you worked hard on might go away, but if you enjoy a challenging environment, this is it. - Nov 2011
Money. I've done some good stuff for my EER. I was in Baghdad during the war, and this is a completely different environment (it was better then, if you can believe that). - Sep 2010
