Jason Kim, MAS-IA '12, on Opportunities for FAOs at IR/PS
FAO Graduate Education Opportunity in San Diego
01/10/2013
Jason Kim,
The Professional Journal of the Foreign Area Officer Association
The University of California San Diego (UCSD) offers a top-tier graduate education program that is designed very effectively to support the advanced civil schooling requirements of FAOs across all services. TheGraduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) offers a Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs (MAS-IA) degree. Developed as an executive master’s program for midcareer professionals possessing five or more years of work experience, the program is educating its third cohort of professionals since its creation. Although a newly established degree program within IR/PS, the graduate department itself was founded in 1986 and has a prestigious history of educating and training more than 1,900 global postgraduate students who hold leadership positions in business, government, and nonprofit organizations throughout the world. The MAS-IA degree is ideally suited for FAOs concentrating in countries in the pacific region or the Americas.
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MAJ Jason Kim is a U.S. Army Northeast Asia FAO currently attending CGSC at Fort Belvoir. He received his master’s degree from UCSD IR/PS with a dual focus on Japan and Korea in 2012 and was the first FAO to apply to the program. He previously served as Company Commander, NTC Military Police Company, Fort Irwin prior to selection into the FAO Corps. Upon completion of CGSC he will assume duties as the U.S. TRADOC Liaison Officer to the Republic of Korea Army TRADOC stationed in Taejon. MAJ Kim previously served in the 2nd Infantry Division as an MP Platoon Leader and Operations Officer as well as in the U.S. Forces Korea Provost Marshal Office from 2003 to 2006.
