Inside Operation Deep Freeze – Part 3

This blog post was contributed by MSgt Lee E. Hoover Jr., a Combat Correspondent at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tennessee, as a follow up to our Dispatches from Antarctica series. MSgt Hoover recently traveled to Antarctica to produce a video series highlighting Air Force and Air National Guard operations throughout the continent, including the South Pole.

Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest, and most inhospitable climate on Earth. That’s what they told me before I left, and I believe it. It’s impressive how fast the weather changes there. In a span of fifteen minutes, it can go from bright sunny skies to wind gusts that essentially cut off visibility.

It’s not an easy place to work, but the people down there do so with success. The last part of the video covers the challenges the weather brings and how the aircrews adapt and overcome.