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The Air Force Reserve Command C-141C aircrews will discontinue flying Operation Deep Freeze to Antarctica when the flying season ends in February 2005. When the season resumes next August, airlift mission responsibility will revert back to the 62nd Airlift Wing at McChord AFB, Washington. The Reserve took on the mission four years ago while McChord transitioned to the C-17. Reservists from the 445th Airlift Wing (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio), the 452nd Air Mobility Wing (March ARB, California), and Headquarters AFRC (Robins AFB, Georgia) will continue to form mixed crews to move National Science Foundation researchers and equipment from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf until the current flying season ends.
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