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Newsletter, May 31, 2021

May 31, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

There is nothing like having a happy dog in the house Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Stanley is finally here. He’s settling in and enjoying the great outdoors. How about a few pictures?    Stanley riding in Comfort Class on the final leg to Alaska. He’s wearing his official gear as a trained Service Animal. He’s also […]

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Newsletter, May 24, 2021

May 24, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

There’s nothing more exciting than a combat drop. Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Did you ever get the feeling that someone was watching you? With their big brown eyes…  The moose have been hanging around our place for the past week. We’ve let our willow grow up so they have their usual food source. They are […]

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Newsletter May 19, 2021

May 19, 2021 by Craig Martelle 2 Comments

The judge returns and she’s bringing a world of hurt to the bad guys Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Nothing replaces words like pictures… here’s our homestead in Alaska as the growth returns for a brief but vibrant period of time where it’s too light to see the stars. They will return with the dark come […]

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Newsletter – May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Units without mutual support are doomed Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! The weather is nigh unto perfect. Highs are getting to 60 (16C) and lows are in the 30s (2-4 C). Mosquitoes have reared their ugly heads but they’re still shaky flying. There’s been a little wind lately and that keeps the aerial assault fleet grounded. […]

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Newsletter May 3, 2021

May 3, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

The silver lining in a springtime cloud Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Here’s the same back driveway I shared a couple weeks ago, but this time, it’s fresh with ruts from the water truck that refilled our tank. I’ll have my ground crew, the team who takes care of my yard, level this before it dries […]

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Newsletter – April 19, 2021

April 23, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Warmth is here. The snow is disappearing at a high rate of speed. Already, the low temperatures are above freezing. The lakes in our yard are growing. As the ground thaws, that’s getting pretty smushy, too. No threat of water getting into the house as the water flows away, but the […]

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Newsletter – April 12th, 2021

April 13, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Warmth is coming. We set a new cold record here in Fairbanks. 185 days straight where the high temperature has been below 40F/4C. But this coming week, it’s supposed to launch us above freezing every single day. Here’s what the forecast shows. We’ll know spring is almost over when the lows […]

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Newsletter – April 5, 2021

April 13, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! It’s been snowing most of the last four days. It’s not bad if you like being buried. Our house and yard are under a solid four feet. The picture is from in front of our garage. We drove out on Saturday when there was only about four to six inches on […]

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THE PULSE POUNDERS THRILLER BUNDLE

February 25, 2021 by Craig Martelle 3 Comments

Buckle up your e-reader—the Pulse Pounders Thriller Bundle – Curated by Kevin J. AndersonTake a breath and hold on. I’ve curated a new “Pulse Pounders” StoryBundle, 13 action-packed books, plus a bonus, guaranteed to put you on the edge of your reading chair. Thrillers, suspense, action, dark fantasy, adventure—the common denominator is that they are […]

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The Ukrainian Air Force

February 20, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

More from my unpublished memoirs. After we left Russia, I was assigned to the Cooperative Threat Reduction group out of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. I first worked nuclear materials tracking, but that wasn’t going to work out as I would have to travel back to Russia. The Russians had made it clear, no returns […]

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Bonny Scotland

February 5, 2021 by Craig Martelle 1 Comment

And the time of our formal wedding was upon us! I had reserved everything a year in advance from the comfortable confines of my basement apartment in Seoul, Korea. I reserved rooms in Dalhousie Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, contacted a photographer, coordinated with the minister, and locked on a bagpiper. All was well. Our wedding […]

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What Alligator?

February 2, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

More from my unpublished memoirs… Wendy likes alligators. The street vendors and shops in Moscow sell all kinds of varied things and many look out of place in the dirty big city environment of Moscow. A store close to my temporary housing about half a mile from the Embassy had stuffed animals, along with normal […]

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China or Kazakhstan? There is only one right answer to this question.

January 29, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

After securing my temporary visa for Russia in Seoul, I was given orders for a weeklong trip, part of which was to Moscow in order to get an in-brief and for familiarization. Then I would spend the rest of the time in Washington D.C. at a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) training course. I dutifully […]

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Korea is different but cool if one only pays attention

January 27, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Korean food is magnificent, once you develop a taste for it. And like any culture, once you start to understand it, your appreciation is greatly enhanced. Koreans like to fix things that are broken. Not all fixes come from the manual – Koreans pride themselves on their ingenuity. The MARFORK offices were out of the […]

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A Russian Visa – just a little bureaucracy from the country that perfected it

January 25, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

Getting to Russia was not as easy as I would have thought, considering that I had U.S. Embassy sponsorship. I started coordinating with the ACIU in December of 1998 while still in Korea. My life took on new meaning and focus and I was determined to do well in my upcoming job. Chief of the […]

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An assignment to Russia

January 23, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

How did I get my assignment to Russia? If I said “Because I didn’t ask for it?” would that make sense? I had been in my job as the G-2, the senior Intelligence Officer, for Marine Forces Korea for only a few months, but it was time to start asking about a new job because […]

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Eat ‘til your tired. Sleep ‘til your hungry.

January 22, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

The old adage of a Marine aboard ship…               There we were, forward deployed, ready to meet Saddam’s forces. OK – the year was 1993 and we were there to demonstrate U.S. and coalition resolve that Kuwait would not be vulnerable again. This meant military exercises, running around the desert, and mostly for me, providing […]

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The ritual of sharing coffee or, know the host culture before you step on your crank – more from my unpublished memoirs

January 20, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

On the same trip to Abu Dhabi, we met with the senior leadership from the UAE’s military. We were briefed in the van on the trip through the city to the military headquarters. Everyone in line from most senior to most junior. It was cool. I was the second most junior.We filed off the van […]

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Shawarma for lunch

January 18, 2021 by Craig Martelle Leave a Comment

I went on a trip to the UAE for an intelligence exchange conference. Per diem was a cool $105 a day. There was no way I was going to spend that amount unless I ate in high-end restaurants. That wasn’t me – food could be had on the cheap. The first day, I strolled down […]

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Dinsmere (name changed to protect the innocent)

January 17, 2021 by Craig Martelle 2 Comments

Dinsmere was a Lance Corporal, having been promoted back after getting busted to PFC. He was a great Intelligence Marine, but not a Marine’s Marine. We were on an exercise and had the opportunity to find and explore a MAZ-543 with a Scud missile. The MAZ was a massive eight-wheeled missile transporter with a small […]

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