Foreign Service officers was held in 1925. (4) The Foreign Service of the United States is the primary United States Federal Government professional cadre of generalists and specialists charged with the conduct of United States diplomacy under the aegis of the United States Department of State. It consists of more than 15,000 career professionals carrying out the foreign policy of the United States and aiding United States citizens abroad. (5) In 1946, after World War II, Congress passed the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 999, chapter 957) to update the 1924 Rogers Act. (6) In 1980, the Congress again updated the Rogers Act, passing the Foreign Service Act of 1980 ( 22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq. ), to promote the foreign policy of the United States by strengthening and improving the Foreign Service of the United States. (7) Since the creation of the United States Foreign Service, generations of Foreign Service members and families have represented the United States around the world, in peace and war. Over 320 names are inscribed in the memorial plaques erected by the American Foreign Service Association and located in the lobby of the Harry S. Truman Building, the headquarters of the Department of State, to honor diplomatic and consular officers of the United States who while on active duty lost their lives under heroic or tragic circumstances . (8) The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training is dedicated to capturing, preserving, and sharing the experiences of United States diplomats. The Association has created, managed, and maintained a Foreign Affairs Oral History program consisting of more than 2,600 first-person oral histories of United States diplomats to capture and share the legacy and contributions of modern United States diplomacy. The Association is a nongovernmental, member-based, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization housed on the campus of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center and dependent on funds from members, donations, contracts, and grants to sustain its work. 3.