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State Archives of North Carolina"},{"label":"Language","value":["English"]},{"label":"Creator","value":["Thoreson, Bruce David, 1938-"]},{"label":"Contributor","value":["Edmister, Rusty."]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:02 M:12 Y:2010"},{"label":"Subject","value":["Veterans","Cold War","Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962","Military history","Oral histories","Oral history","Personal narratives","Retired military personnel","United States. Marine Corps Development and Education Command. Amphibious Warfare School","United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 1st","United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 2nd","United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 5th","United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 6th","United States. Marine Corps. Office of the Commandant","United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 28th","United States. Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps","Wisconsin (Battleship : BB-64)","United States. Naval Reserve"]},{"label":"Place","value":["Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, San Diego County, California, United States","Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, United States","Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Virginia Beach (city), Virginia, United States","Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey County, California, United States","Washington, District of Columbia, United States","Guantánamo, Guantánamo, Cuba","Đà Nẵng, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam","Marine Corps Base Quantico, Stafford County, Virginia, United States","Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Onslow County, North Carolina, United States","Okinawa, Kyushu, Japan"]},{"label":"Time Period","value":["(1954-1971) Civil Rights era","(1945-1989) Post War/Cold War period"]},{"label":"Description","value":"Bruce David Thoreson was born on April 11, 1938, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, to Oscar and Helen Burns Thoreson. Bruce Thoreson graduated from high school in 1956. He attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied engineering. While in college, he participated in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program, attending training sessions during his summer vacations. During the summer after his freshmen year, he completed training cruise aboard the USS Wisconsin (BB-64), an Iowa-class battleship. He attended a three-week training session at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia; then a three-week training session at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, after his sophomore year.  Thoreson attended Officer Candidate School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, after his junior year. Upon college graduation, Thoreson received his first commission, entering active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps on June 3, 1961. After his commission, Thoreson was ordered to attend basic officer school in Quantico, Virginia. In late 1961, he was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he served an infantry officer. During the summer of 1962, he served as an instructor at the Amphibious Training Base in Norfolk, Virginia.  Upon his return to Camp Lejeune, Thoreson was reassigned to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines. He was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. After his return from Cuba, he served as an assistant platoon commander for an 81mm Mortar Platoon at Camp Lejeune. In the fall of 1963, Thoreson was sent to Communication School in Quantico, Virginia; as a result, his Military Occupation Specialty (MOS) switched from infantry to communications. Upon the completion of his training, he served as a communications officer of a tank battalion in Okinawa, Japan, for 13 months.  In the spring of 1965, he returned to the United States, and served as a communications officer in Norfolk, Virginia. Thoreson attended Amphibious Warfare School in Quantico, Virginia; later serving as a communications officer with the 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, at Camp Pendleton, California. Thoreson served with the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. He served in his company's communications operations headquarters at Da Nang Air Base--first as an executive officer, then as a company commander. He later worked for his division's communications electronics officer.  Upon his return to United States, Thoreson served at Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) in Washington, D.C., for three years. He attended Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, graduating with a master's degree in telecommunications management. In the mid-1970s, Thoreson served at the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity at Camp Pendleton. During this time, one of Thoreson's duties was to evaluate the suitability of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), a technical foundation of the Internet, for use by the U.S. Marine Corps. In 1977, Thoreson returned to Okinawa, Japan, and served as the Executive Officer of the Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18. He returned to the United States in 1978. Thoreson served at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., until his retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps on June 30, 1981, having reached the rank of Major during his military career. After his military service, Thoreson lived near Detroit, Michigan, later relocating to North Carolina. At the time of this interview, Thoreson was living in Durham, N.C."},{"label":"Digital Characteristics","value":"4 pages"},{"label":"Format","value":["Summaries"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"All rights held by the State Archives of NC. 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