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AVC Assistant Secretary Mallory Stewart (second from left) tours the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, a chemical weapons destruction facility in Colorado, July 27, 2022. Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense

$At the center of the image is a horizontal orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. In the middle of this cloud is a yellow-white blob with 8 reddish pink diffraction spikes piercing through it. The left lobe of the cloud is thicker. Just off the edge is a tiny red arc that curves in the opposite direction. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller orange semi-circle that has a faint purple outline. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller orange sponge-like blob. A delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud known as a nebula drifts toward the top of the image and peters out toward the left of the frame. Toward the right and bottom, the nebula ends in a soft ridge set off in a translucent orange. The background is filled with stars and galaxies. Two foreground stars with blue diffraction spikes, seen in the bottom right corner, are especially prominent.$

The Final Frontier

An Auspicious Anniversary

The Administration Bureau’s Media Services Division staff focus on sound and video while filming the interview from multiple angles. Photo by Luis A. Jimenez Jr.

By Isaac D. Pacheco Last year, President Donald Trump tapped former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo to serve as the nation’s 70th...

Annual Homecoming

From left: Judy Ikels, Carol Z. Perez, director general of the foreign service and director of human resources and William R. Brownfield pose after being presented with the 2019 Director General Civil Service Cup and the Director General Foreign Service Cup, May 3. Photo by Heidi Howland

Above: From left, Judy Ikels, Carol Z. Perez, director general of the foreign service and director of human resources and William R. Brownfield meet...

Secure Departure

RSO Caracas security personnel check vehicles prior to the motorcade carrying embassy personnel to the airport, March 14, in Caracas, Venezuela. Photo by Joel Gomez

By Angela French Ordered departure: It rarely happens, but when it does the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) makes sure it is done...

Dogs Enhance Learning Environment

Hobbes may be the smallest of FSI’s volunteer therapy dogs but he has just as much love to share as the largest. Photo by Amanda J. Richard

By Laura E. Smallwood Ambassador Dan Smith, director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), announced the first official therapy dog program as a permanent fixture...

Historic Century

Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, AFSA’s president, gives remarks at the Foreign Service Journal centennial exhibit opening held in the U.S. Diplomacy Center. Photo by Joaquin Sosa

By Donna Scaramastra Gorman The Foreign Service Journal (FSJ or Journal)—published by the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)—celebrated its 100th birthday, March 20, with an...

Security Investment

By Tau Shanklin Roberts, Ian Arzeni and Razia Kimani The U.S. National Strategy for Counterterrorism requires the U.S. to broaden its range of partners...

Inspiring Confidence

By Michael Liebegott Five years after the 2014 Revolution of Dignity in which the Ukrainian people demanded a democratic, Euro-Atlantic future, they headed to the...

Third of a Century

The 31st A-100, the class of Paul Glimer, Jim Steele, John Bradshaw and Stuart Symington, official class photo, Jan. 10, 1986. State Department photo

By Paul Gilmer The history of A-100 classes dates back to June 7, 1924, when President Coolidge issued Executive Order 4022 establishing a Foreign Service...

A Solid Foundation

The American Institute in Taiwan’s new $255 million office, a modern complex built explicitly to serve as home base for the American Institute in Taiwan and its activities, symbolizes the United States’ commitment to the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. Photo by Fabian Ortiz

By Nolan Masterson Foreign Service personnel assigned to Taipei, Taiwan, before 1979 completed their tours at the Embassy of the United States to the Republic...

Opening Doors

Boys practice their acrobatic skills on Lido beach, Mogadishu. Photo by Tobin Jones

By Janet Deutsch Rarely do Foreign Service officers (FSOs) have the opportunity to experience the launching of a new diplomatic presence in a host nation....

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