He told his father that he was tired of school and he wanted to join the Marines. Dave Thomason joined in 1973 thinking that he would probably be sent to Vietnam. However, during basic training, his aptitude for technical skills set him apart from the crowd and he was offered a very different and unexpected career path. He then spent 20 years working in the highly classified field of Electronics Intelligence.
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