The State Department is a very large gaggle of self adoring prima donnas who accomplish little. In the last couple decades it has been overrun with affirmative action products, which complicates things.  DOS employees are trained to revere "the process" and let much needed real life results slip through gigantic bureaucratic fissures. Regularly, State personnel busy themselves with trivialities, like what clothing can be worn on workdays, or hair length issues, which often take precedence over focusing on and doing their jobs, i.e., real work. I wish I could be more complimentary. I can't. State needs a giant purge, girth reduction and serious streamlining.