An LC-130 Hercules assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing sits on the ice runway near the United States’ main operating location in Antarctica, McMurdo Station, on Nov. 11, 2023. From October 2023 to March 2024, 366 Airmen assigned the wing transported 2.2 million pounds of cargo, 1,500 passengers and 68,000 gallons of fuel. Operation Deep Freeze is a joint service, inter-agency mission