Story by Oscar Garcia | Naval Construction Group ONE | 05.15.2025
Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3 is leading a critical infrastructure project at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to replace the failing ice pier with a permanent steel barge system. This new platform, constructed in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, addresses growing reliability issues caused by the traditional ice pier’s......
Courtesy Story | XVIII Airborne Corps Public Affairs | 03.27.2025
The 331st Transportation Company (Causeway), part of 11th Transportation Battalion, 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary) recently returned from the Middle East, only to be called upon again to support another critical expeditionary mission—this time in one of the most austere environments on Earth: McMurdo Station, Antarctica....
Story by Steven Conklin | 142nd Wing | 12.27.2024
PORTLAND, Ore. - Oregon Air National Guard Director of Staff, Col. Christopher Lantagne has finished a six week tour as the commander of the 13th Air Expeditionary Group at McMurdo Station, Antarctica....
Story by Senior Airman Colleen Anthony | 62nd Airlift Wing | 11.14.2024
Team McChord, through Operation Deep Freeze, plays a crucial role in ensuring that the Antarctic airlift mission operates smoothly and efficiently. The 62d Airlift Wing and 446th Airlift Wing crews come together to form the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron and have perfected the process over the years, maintaining everything from logistics of air transport to the coordination of personnel......
Story by Jaclyn Lyons | 109th Air Wing | 09.19.2024
Members of the National Science Board – the entity ultimately responsible for setting U.S. polar research priorities --got a firsthand look at the ski-equipped C-130s which sustain science research in Antarctica and Greenland during a visit to Stratton Air National Guard Base on Sept. 12....
Story by Steven Conklin | 142nd Wing | 03.13.2024
Members of the 142nd Wing got the chance to escape the pacific northwest winter this year with a trip to Antarctica. December to March is actually summertime for the continent due to its location on the bottom of the globe; but this was no tropical vacation....
Story by Jaclyn Lyons | New York National Guard | 03.13.2024
STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Scotia, New York -- The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing, based at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia New York, has successfully concluded its annual Operation Deep Freeze season, marking the end of another productive season supporting scientific research in Antarctica. Between October,2023 and March 6, 2024, 366 Airmen worked at......
Story by Jaclyn Lyons | 109th Air Wing | 12.20.2022
A maintenance team made up of Guard Airmen from three states, spent November 23rd through the 25th at the bottom of the world, braving dangerous sub-zero temperatures, to repair an LC-130 “Skibird” stranded at Amundson-Scott South Pole Station....
