Thomas Magnum

Growing up in Tidewater, Virginia, Magnum is a Detroit-born third-generation naval officer, the son of a deceased naval aviator killed during the Korean War.

He is a 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he played quarterback for the Naval Academy football team.

He served as a Navy SEAL "operator" during the Vietnam War where he was trained in counter-insurgency, as a sniper, in lock picking, safe-cracking and assorted firearms including his favored sidearm, the Colt M1911 pistol he carried in the Navy.

He resigned from the Navy in disillusionment after approximately ten years of service, including three tours of service during the U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, his final post being with the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), although the show referred to it as the NIA for Naval Intelligence Agency, in Hawaii.

Asked why he resigned, Magnum explains, "I woke up one day at 33 and realized I had never been 23."

Thomas begins the series at age 34, having resigned from the Navy one year prior.

Magnum takes his job seriously and does not appreciate abbreviations such as P.I. or private eye — whenever referred to in such a manner he corrects the person and remarks that he is a "private investigator".

Links
Magnum P.I. Wiki
Magnum Mania
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