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NY-based unit taking part in US South Pole mission

October 21, 2009 By The Associated Press  

SCOTIA, N.Y. (AP) — Members of an upstate New York-based Air National Guard unit are headed to the South Pole.

The 109th Airlift Wing based at the Stratton Air National Guard Base in Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) County is taking part in the U.S. military's annual Operation Deep Freeze mission.

Two of the unit's six LC-130 cargo planes supporting the mission departed from the base...

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