Terry Nance of Sacramento served the United States Department of the State as a Security Technical Specialist from August 1999 to March of 2001. He served on the Ivory Coast of Africa and supervised the United States Navy personnel and maintenance schedules at 17 United States Embassies. He was responsible for managing and overseeing millions of dollars worth of security upgrades and designing, creating, and establishing a training facility utilized for regional training in Africa. Terry Nance of Sacramento traveled for around 90 percent of his time as a Security Technical Specialist.