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AFSA's becoming a union 40 years ago reinforced one of the Governing Board's primary duties: maximizing the professionalism of the American diplomatic service. A large part of that effort is the constant struggle to keep chief-of-mission and agency leadership positions in the hands of career Foreign Service officers. As current AFSA President Susan Johnson and others have documented, there is an accelerating trend away from assigning career Foreign Service officers to top-tier State Department jobs-even as the number of such positions proliferates. Adapted from the source document.