Lang, Thomas P., interviewee Sims, Christopher (Photographer), interviewer Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor sound recording-nonmusical spoken word still image Sound recordings. Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020. Interviews. Oral histories. Personal narratives. lau 2017 monographic 2017-09-29 eng

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1 sound recording (wav) (01:03:11) : digital, wav. 1 photograph : digital, jpg, color. 1 manuscript : pdf, text file. Thomas Lang talks about his work as a role-player at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, where members of the military are exposed to a pretend country replicating conditions overseas where they will be deployed. He discusses the various characters he inhabited and how his experience with community theater impacted his work. He also talks about his experiences in Catholic school in New Orleans, his career in the U.S. Navy, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and as a meteorologist. Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions. Recorded at the interviewee's home, DeRidder, Louisiana, September 29, 2017. Training the Troops: Military Role-Players of Fort Polk, Louisiana: Archie Green Fellows Project, 2017-2018 (AFC 2017/019: 04340) American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers. In English. n-us-la Lang, Thomas P. Interviews Veterans Louisiana Interviews Clothing and dress Handicraft Humor in the workplace Job satisfaction Post-retirement employment Military training camps Louisiana Fort Polk Role playing Fort Polk (La.) Social life and customs United States Armed Forces Civilian employees Interviews Library of Congress American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2017019.afc2017019_04340_sr01 (DLC) 2021655415 AFC 2017/019: 04340 2022655304 dacs DLC 230802 20250607122850.2 23257615 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng