But the service has received criticism for apparently being designed to facilitate casual - often very brief - liaisons.
Liaisons have many responsibilities.
At the time that Medusa went down, Sajjan, a reservist major, was serving as a liaison officer work that he has received extensive military praise for.
To facilitate reporting of suspected GBS, the liaison at the 150 active reporting sites received a biweekly email or phone call in accordance with the facility's preference.
Later he was sent into occupied France as a liaison with the resistance; he was wounded and received the Croix de Guerre.
He said he had heard through the Afghan Sports Federation, a nonprofit agency based in Virginia that serves as a liaison for athletes, that the Uzbekistan Embassy had not received the required paperwork from the country's foreign ministry to grant permission.
But in November, Ms. Weil received a phone call from her liaison at Jewish Family Services in Philadelphia, who said a Russian child had become available and that it might be better to be married.
He continued to garner praise with Prick Up Your Ears (1987), a biographical movie about British playwright Joe Orton, and the American films Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Grifters (1990), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
Sandy Cecka, David's mother, said that at about noon today, she and her husband received a phone call from their naval liaison who said he had a message from their son.
She enjoyed founding NPA and wanted to continue work in the policy arena, so she applied for and received a AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellowship, working as a liaison between AAAS and the National Science Foundation.
Because there was leadership and commitment at an organisational level we received valuable support from the consumer research liaison officer when developing our proposal for participation and throughout the project.
