Category : Operations

The first U.S. Air Force C-17s were scheduled to land at Pegasus Airfield near McMurdo Station this week, bringing in new personnel, equipment and some...

Get wind of this: Antarctica New Zealand will tap into the naturally blustery conditions around Ross Island to help power its research station and the...

It’s been nearly 80 years since Adm. Richard Byrd made his famous flight over the South Pole, enough time surely for all aviation firsts to...

Military personnel who support the National Science Foundation’s U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) recently received recognition for their work in Operation Deep Freeze and other missions....

Flight Safety is serious business in the Air Force, and for one Air Force Reserve organization, it’s so important they’re willing to go to the...

A complicated international air operation coordinated by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation, has successfully evacuated a badly injured...

The small field camps that speck the islands of the Antarctic Peninsula are far from the main artery of USAP logistics, across the other side...

Team McChord Airmen assigned to the Expeditionary Airlift Squadron in support of Operation Deep Freeze has completed four operational C-17 Globemaster III airdrops to the...

In many ways, the South Pole has become an ice-covered field of dreams. The continent’s newest and most advanced research station has attracted major, multi-million...