Delivery to the Ice
Chief Master Sgt. Bill Nolin conducts pre-flight checks on an LC-130 Hercules Nov. 26, 2007 at the annual sea ice runway near McMurdo Station, Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze. Ski-equipped LC-130s, crews and support personnel from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing are supporting the 13th Air Force-led Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze. Operation Deep Freeze is a unique joint and total force mission that has supported the National Science Foundation and U.S. Antarctic Program that began in 1955. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)