What is the diff between a foreign service officer and a foreign service specialist?

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Are they both diplomats?

Are there any type of diplomats who are not FSOs or FSSs?

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FSOs tend to be what you think of as "traditional" diplomats- economic, political, consular and admin folks. FSSs support the FSOs- they're secretaries, communicators, doctors and nurses, security types, IT folks, etc. There used to be a pay scale difference, but that kinda went away 25 years ago.

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go to careers at www.state.gov the explaination is on there.

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