the Foreign Service
noun
: a part of the U.S. State Department that hires people (such as diplomats) to represent the government in foreign countries
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The secretary carries out the president's foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.
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Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
That is what so many of these people in the State Department, in the Foreign Service, did all those Trump years.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Inside the Classroom After months of research, planning, and scheduling, Fick’s team launched the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Tradecraft course at the Foreign Service Institute with a test run in November 2022.
—Eric Geller, WIRED, 2 July 2024
Palmer went to Yale, then worked in journalism, for a while, then joined the Foreign Service.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
Despite serving in the Foreign Service as a diplomat and as an officer in the CIA, his first love was journalism, his wife said.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
That helped launch me into a long and fortunate career in government, first in the Foreign Service and now at the CIA.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
At the same time, the people who stuck it out, the professionals, the Foreign Service officers and the civil service officials, they should be rewarded as well because that was not an easy time.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2021
If that wasn’t confusing enough, one day Stewart’s father got a letter from the State Department addressed to yet a third Herbert Block, who was in the Foreign Service.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
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Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
That is what so many of these people in the State Department, in the Foreign Service, did all those Trump years.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Inside the Classroom After months of research, planning, and scheduling, Fick’s team launched the Cyberspace and Digital Policy Tradecraft course at the Foreign Service Institute with a test run in November 2022.
—Eric Geller, WIRED, 2 July 2024
Palmer went to Yale, then worked in journalism, for a while, then joined the Foreign Service.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 May 2024
Despite serving in the Foreign Service as a diplomat and as an officer in the CIA, his first love was journalism, his wife said.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
That helped launch me into a long and fortunate career in government, first in the Foreign Service and now at the CIA.
—William J. Burns, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2024
At the same time, the people who stuck it out, the professionals, the Foreign Service officers and the civil service officials, they should be rewarded as well because that was not an easy time.
—Hillary Rodham Clinton, Foreign Affairs, 23 Mar. 2021
If that wasn’t confusing enough, one day Stewart’s father got a letter from the State Department addressed to yet a third Herbert Block, who was in the Foreign Service.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
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