New York Air National Guard

STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE--New York Air National Guard Maj. Timothy Novak, a navigator with the 109th Airlift Wing, exits an LC-130Hercules aircraft after returning back to Stratton Air National Guard Base, New York, on March 8,2016, after supporting support of Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica.. Five hundred members of the wing conducted operations at McMurdo Station from October to March in support of the National Science Foundation, by flying 3,900 researchers and support staff plus about 4 million pounds of cargo and 1.2 million pounds of fuel to research stations across Antarctica.