An Air Force C-17 cargo plane lands on the ice runway at the National Science Foundation’s McMurdo Station in Antarctica. The Department of Defense has provided logistical support to the NSF’s “Operation Deep Freeze” every year since 1955. The Air Force provides military transport, medical evacuation, search and rescue and other support to the program. (

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