{"id":161461,"date":"2024-12-25T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/operation-deep-freeze-us-air-force-304th-expeditionary-airlift-squadron-antarctic-mission\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T22:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:24:18","slug":"operation-deep-freeze-the-us-air-force-304th-expeditionary-airlift-squadrons-antarctic-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=161461","title":{"rendered":"Operation Deep Freeze: The US Air Force 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron&#8217;s Antarctic Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every autumn, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF) sends some of its airlifters to New Zealand to stage airlift support for             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"64396\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/antarctica\/\"  >Antarctica<\/a><\/span>. Considering that Joint Base Lewis-McChord\u2019s 62nd Airlift Wing, supported by the Air Force Reserve\u2019s 446th Airlift Wing, has been supporting Operation Deep Freeze for 26 years, it\u2019s no surprise to see             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258749\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-17-globemaster\/\"  >Boeing C-17 Globemaster IIIs<\/a><\/span> lead the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (304th EAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the US Air Force&#8217;s efforts to support scientific research on Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[850,396,227,14876,595,853,1397,294,877,1632,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-aircraft","category-antarctica","category-antarcticaflights","category-aviation-news","category-c-17-globemaster","category-christchurch-airport","category-new-zealand","category-plane-spotting","category-planespotting","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161462,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161461\/revisions\/161462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}