I’ve been an Arktis customer for 35 of their 40 years. To celebrate these four decades of service, they have set up a special page on their website to showcase the high points of their history as well as offering several exclusive 40th anniversary products.

I’m (re)sharing an article I wrote in 2021 recalling how I became an Arktis customer.

In the Spring of 1990, I was on the downhill side of a two year tour in Germany that had been involuntarily extended to 30 months due to lack of retainability. Rather than extending my enlistment and accepting an involuntary assignment to Fort Carson, I was waiting for my re-enlisted to window to open so I could go to Bragg. At the time I was working outside my SIGINT MOS as a radio operator in 3rd ID’s Long Range Surveillance Detachment and prefer

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