MSgt Joe Butler, LC-130 crew chief from the New York Air National
Guard's 109th Airlift Wing, checks the skis on the aircraft at
Christchurch, New Zealand, Oct. 11, 1999. Two LC-130s
are currently poised and ready at McMurdo Station for a break in the
weather to medi-vac doctor Jerri Nielsen from the South Pole.
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