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Smith is currently an executive in charge of developing international business at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, which makes the Patriot anti-missile systems.
Although he has had a distinguished military career that included combat sorties as an F-15 pilot during the 1991 Gulf War, Smith's resume shows little other direct experience with the Middle East.
In other notable nominations, Obama tapped David Jacobson, a lawyer who currently is the White House special assistant for presidential personnel, to be his ambassador to Canada.
Carlos Pascual, a former career foreign service officer and foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution, was nominated to be ambassador to Mexico, the White House said.
Donald Gipps, Obama's director of presidential personnel and a former chief domestic policy adviser to then vice president Al Gore, was nominated to be the US Ambassador to South Africa.
Kenneth Merten was nominated to be US ambassador to Haiti, where he has served several times in the course of a 22-year career as a foreign service officer.
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Although he has had a distinguished military career that included combat sorties as an F-15 pilot during the 1991 Gulf War, Smith's resume shows little other direct experience with the Middle East.
In other notable nominations, Obama tapped David Jacobson, a lawyer who currently is the White House special assistant for presidential personnel, to be his ambassador to Canada.
Carlos Pascual, a former career foreign service officer and foreign policy expert at the Brookings Institution, was nominated to be ambassador to Mexico, the White House said.
Donald Gipps, Obama's director of presidential personnel and a former chief domestic policy adviser to then vice president Al Gore, was nominated to be the US Ambassador to South Africa.
Kenneth Merten was nominated to be US ambassador to Haiti, where he has served several times in the course of a 22-year career as a foreign service officer.
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