Dr. John K. Marteinson, CD, BA, MA, passed away on 17 January 2006.  Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) J.K. Marteinson recently received an honorary degree from the Royal Military College for his exceptional contribution to the military science discipline, in addition to his remarkable contribution and support to the military and academic community of this fine institution.

John was the Editor of Canadian Military Journal when it was launched in March 2000. He served 35 years in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. His early postings were in tank and recce squadrons, a tour as a helicopter pilot, he also held staff and instructional positions at the Combat Arms School, Canadian Forces Command and Staff College and

NATO headquarters.

He completed tours in Germany and Cyprus with the Fort Garry Horse and the 8th Canadian Hussars.   Lt. Col Marteinson retired from Regular Force in 1987 and was appointed editor of Canadian Defence Quarterly and held the position for eight years.  

Dr. John K. Marteinson was the author of numerous books including We Stand on Guard: An illustrated history of the Canadian Army, Second to None: The Governor General's Horse Guards, and The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps: an illustrated history.

We will miss him. 

Obituary from Globe and Mail   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/BDAStory/Deaths
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Marteinson devoted his life to military
By Jack Chiang - THE KINGSTON WHIG-STANDARD

http://www.thewhig.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=141954&catname=Jack+Chiang&classif=News+%2D+Local

44 years later, BAR comes clean!

Thank you for your query about my article "RMC Hits Moon" from the 14 Feb 1962 edition of The Marker. I wonder how I could have forgotten having written such deft and insightful sophomoric prose, filled as it is with sardonic irony and perfectly apt topical references to life as an RMC cadet of the era. Yet it does have my number and initials on it.  I was then in 2nd year Math and Physics and no doubt we budding young scientists were all atwitter over the first orbit of the Earth in April 1961by Russian Yuri Gagarin and the sub-orbital rides by Americans Alan Shepard the following month and Gus Grissom's in the July.  (Thank you, Lord, for Google.)  Perhaps we had heard all about plans for John Glenn's upcoming Mercury 6 launch aboard Friendship 7 which occurred on 20 February and we on The Marker just had to scoop it! 

By the way credit should go to photographer Recruit Harold Merklinger for his picture of a truly ancient artifact, a pentode electronic valve, standing in for the space rocket.

 6203 Barry A Read (a.k.a BAR)

During this past term six cadets packed up their gear and headed south.  Two each to: West Point; Annapolis; and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.  The cadets were kind enough to share some of their experiences.  

OCdt 23227 Tyler Peitzsche at West Point
(click on picture for larger view)

In a recent edition of e-Veritas (6 December 2005, Issue #31) there was a section that featured an article from the 1985 version of The Arch entitled 63 Things II Cadets Would Like to See at RMC. Item number eight was patent leather. This past semester I had the opportunity to spend the semester at a military academy where patent leather was the norm and I was the odd man out with real leather shoes that required more than just a squirt of Windex to keep them gleaming. Myself and OCdt Nick Lussier-Nivischiuk spent an incredible five months at the United States Military Academy, West Point as part of a recent exchange program between RMC and USMA.  

Click here for more on the exchange experience