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Initial Service in the Home Office. – Except for non-career chiefs mission appointed by the President, no member of the Career Foreign Service Corps shall be assigned to any post abroad unless he has rendered continuous and satisfactory service in the home office for at least three (3) years including undertaking an intensive familiarization program of Philippine conditions, urban and rural.
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