Andrew Faltum
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States Email: agfaltum@gmail.com A native of Chicago, I was a Chicago Police Officer from 1970-72 before joining the Navy. After commissioning from Aviation Officer Candidate School at Pensacola, FL, I served as an Air Intelligence Officer with an A-6 Intruder squadron aboard the USS Midway (home ported in Yokosuka, Japan) and participated in Operation Frequent Wind (the evacuation of Saigon) in 1975. After getting out of the Navy in 1976, I worked briefly as an artist-model builder for Jo-Han models in Detroit before joining the Army Recruiting Command in Lansing, MI as a writer-editor. I got back into intelligence in 1979, when I started as an intern at the Tank-Automotive Command (now Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command) Foreign Intelligence Office at Warren, MI. I moved to Watertown, MA for year while I was the Foreign Intelligence Officer at the Materials Technology Laboratory before coming to the Washington DC area in 1986. I worked at the Army Materiel Command headquarters G2, where I supported Army acquisition programs, intelligence requirements management, information operations (IO), cyber threat, and intelligence support to force protection (FP), until I retired in 2003.
I spent 18 years in the Naval Reserve Intelligence Program (1977-95) in various assignments, most notably as a Reserve Assistant Naval Attache for Oslo, Norway.
My educational background includes a BA in Mathematics from Northeastern Illinois University in 1969 and an MA in International Politics and Economics from the University of Detroit in 1982. I graduated from the Army Management Staff College in 1991.
Currently I am working as a Military Analyst Lead for Alion Science and Technology supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) programs within DoD for the Joint Staff, where I provide technical and analytical support; review and analyze Combatant Command CIP requirements and develop CIP policy, guidance and resource recommendations.
My interests include writing, military and naval history, running (I ran my first Marine Corps Marathon at age 54), cooking and various home improvement projects (carpentry, electrical, drywall, plumbing, etc.).
Currently I am working on a book about the Forrestal and Kitty Hawk class for Nautical & Aviation Publishing. I am also branching out into writing both fiction and non-fiction for web-based media. Interests: Military, aviation and naval history. I am branching out into other non-fiction and fiction writing in web-based environments.
Published writer: Yes
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