If I am not mistaken, one of APC's very own is an active participant in this. Nice job!! We are very proud of you. Don't forget our "date" in a couple of weeks. I look forward to it immensely.

From Seattle PI:

MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- An Air Force cargo plane and crew from McChord Air Force Base flew from New Zealand to Antarctica early Saturday to assist a stranded British fishing trawler.

The C-17 Globemaster III, along with its pilots and loadmasters from the 446th Airlift Wing and 62nd Airlift Wing, were already in New Zealand to deliver supplies to Antarctica as part of Operation Deep Freeze - a research program of the National Science Foundation and U.S. Antarctic Program.

The New Zealand Rescue Coordination Center contacted the Operation Deep Freeze C-17 mission commander in Christchurch, New Zealand, to seek assistance in dropping supplies to a British fishing trawler, the Argos Georgia, that had lost all main power and was frozen in the ice flow off the Ross Ice Shelf.

The Air Force said other options to rescue the ship were either no longer available or would be more than 10 days away. The trawler crew had been without main power for six days.

The air crew dropped an engine piston and casing from approximately 400 feet above the surface at a speed of about 170 miles per hour.

From New Zealand Herald:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10485479