Nick Pietrowicz spent twenty-three years as a special agent with the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Joining immediately after 9/11, his first tour to the New York Field Office was abbreviated when he volunteered to go to Port au Prince, Haiti. There, he protected the American Embassy and its staff following the collapse of President Aristide’s government and the ensuing period of anarchy. Nick was then posted to the Miami Field Office, curtailing to volunteer for service in Kabul, Afghanistan. Arriving in the summer of 2006, he spent a year on the ambassador’s protective detail while simultaneously managing the embassy’s guard force. Nick was then assigned to Moldova, his first tour as an embassy chief of security, where he led an investigation into one of the largest nuclear material smuggling cases in the country’s history. Nick followed this with an assignment to Chad, where he killed a black mamba with a can of WD-40 and handed out Chick-fil-A sauce on the Libyan border. His next overseas tour was to Luanda, Angola, which included substantial travel throughout the country and the rest of Africa. His final two overseas tours were in Australia and then Bosnia and Herzegovina, after which he returned to Washington, D.C.