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Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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wanted to drop the word "foreign" and add "overseas"<br />

to that. And that cost the government about<br />

$400,000 to do the reconfiguration <strong>of</strong> that.<br />

Okay, now this is OBO's recognition that<br />

has occurred. It's 16 key recognitions that the<br />

organization has received. We're very proud <strong>of</strong><br />

them. I'm not going to read them. You can look at<br />

them, digest them and whatever, but it's been from<br />

pretty much every corner <strong>of</strong> the government.<br />

The one that I'm very proud <strong>of</strong> is Veterans'<br />

Affairs, down at the bottom. We have done a lot for<br />

Veterans and tried to help it out in a lot <strong>of</strong><br />

different ways, to include those small firms that<br />

have tried to come together and help. Our Society<br />

<strong>of</strong> American Military Engineers has been there a<br />

couple <strong>of</strong> times, and ABC, and so on.<br />

Okay. Now we are going to come back to<br />

that one slide that I skipped over and I know you<br />

were wondering well what about that. So, when we<br />

reach the 50th point, the staff said to me that we<br />

should just pause and do a little reflecting. The<br />

staff said to me we should pause and do some<br />

reflecting, which we did. And we looked at the BMIS<br />

situation that I just explained and kind <strong>of</strong> made<br />

some assessments about that and what it meant to us.<br />

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