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When Melissa White was growing up, her mother, referring to the realities of choosing a husband, always told her daughter, “When you tie your cart to a pony, that’s your pony. You go where he goes.” In a recent interview with her husband, Wayne, Melissa said, “I hitched mine, and whoa, I’ve been all over the world. “I’ve even been draped in black in Saudi Arabia.” If you don’t know Wayne White, don’t beat yourself up. He hasn’t “been h...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Josiah Horneman about documenting life in the South Pole on Tik Tok.

By Edzel Butac, 446th Airlift Wing Public Affairs / Published April 28, 2021 A C-17 Globemaster III, assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, sits at McMurdo Station in Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze. ODF is unlike any other U.S. military operation. It is one of the militarys most difficult peacetime missions due to the harsh Antarctic environment. The U.S. military is uniquely equipped and trained to operate in such an austere ...

5 JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Though it is another season for the books, the 2020-2021 season of Operation Deep Freeze (ODF) ends as a highlight for one Reserve Citizen Airman’s career. Chief Master Sgt. Ty Brooks, a loadmaster assigned to the 313th Airlift Squadron, has been participating in ODF for 18 years. Brooks, who will retire from the Air Force Reserve this summer, says ODF is one of the highlights of his more than 40-year career. “I’ll certainly miss wor...

Sun, 04/25/2021 - 9:45am Joee Patterson. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) Jay Burnett. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) Sarah Doudera. (Photo courtesy Stewardship Education Alliance) CAMDEN — The Stewardship Education Alliance (S.E.A.) has tapped three new members to the local nonprofit’s Board of Directors. The announcement comes from S.E.A. president and Board chairman, Barbara Lawrence. The year-old nonprofit works to increase community awareness o...

By Mike Lucibella April 21, 2021 Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier is melting because of climate change, and a collapse of the glacier could raise sea levels significantly around the world. To glaciologists, it’s “the glacier of greatest concern” and the focus of the largest-ever joint U.S.-U.K. Antarctic field research program - the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council have teamed u...

USNI News Search for: Home » Budget Industry » Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs Schultz: Coast Guard Units Remain in High Demand as Forces Stretches to Meet Needs March 15, 2021 2:40 PM Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard, speaks during the 2021 State of the Coast Guard Address in San Diego March 11, 2021. US Coast Guard Photo SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Coast Guard remains in big demand at home and overseas as it continues to...

  Photo Credit: Ken Halanych Researchers Candace Grimes (left) and Damien Waits process recently collected annelid worms in the lab on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer. Charting a Genetic Sea Change How the DNA of Sea Creatures Contain a Coded Map of Ancient Antarctica By Michael Lucibella, Photo Credit: Ken Halanych (Left to right) Rich Thompson, Colin Brayton and Alex Brett work to set up the Megacore sampler before its dropped over the side of the ship to collect samples...

From November through February, the 73 Airmen and three LC-130 Hercules supported the United States Antarctic research efforts as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the Department of Defense’s annual support to the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic, News stories from the United States Air Force Academy.