sentences:  Melrose was described as "Mr. Fixit" and "the State Department's emergency repairman" by Robert Windrem of NBC News.He headed the Emergency Support Team following the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and played a role following the 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut.Following his return from Sierra Leone in 2001, he was coordinator for the State Department's post-Sept. 11 Task Force.