Thiel, Mark, “Thiel, Mark (Interview outline and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed April 13, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29485.
Mark Thiel was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1950 and served in the Navy/Marines and Army during the Vietnam War Era. He worked for the Navy and Marines as a lab assistant in a number of different locations, including South Carolina and Camp Pendleton in California. After his stint in the Navy, he joined the Army and worked as a truck and forklift driver in Germany and at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. After the Army, he worked as a truck driver in Grand Rapids, Michigan.