Thanksgiving Greetings From One of the U.S. Antarctic Program's Military Partners

November 23, 2017

National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230

Operation Deep Freeze provides the U.S. military's support to the NSF-managed U.S. Antarctic Program. Deep Freeze incorporates support from many branches of the service, including the United States Air Force, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Members of the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard, the only unit to fly ski-equipped LC-130 cargo aircraft, support the Antarctic Program by flying from New Zealand to Antarctica; from NSF's McMurdo to Amundsen-Scott South Pole stations; and into deep-field science camps. The unit also supports NSF-funded research in the Arctic.

In this roughly two-minute video, officers and enlisted personnel offer holiday greetings to friends, family and others on this Thanksgiving Day from a station run by the Italian National Antarctic Research Program and from McMurdo Station.