McMURDO STATION | A DAY IN THE LIFE IN ANTARCTICA 

I'm the guy in the forklift. Thanks for sharing the clips with me! It's awesome to see it from your perspective

I spent 7 months in Antarctica. Home based at McMurdo, but my job took me all over the continent. The food at the mess hall at McMurdo was some of the best in the world. We ate like Kings everyday, 3 times a day. If you didn't see what you wanted, you asked and t hey would make it. Prime Rib, Lobster, shrimp, burgers, etc. it was all there. AAA+++

Thank you for your service~~I served 30yrs, loved every minute/hour/day/month/years....I joined the AF and saw the whole world, for free~The best part was the people, we had some fun~~

Back in the 80s, there was a need for an ET to TDY on a USCG Polar Class icebreaker. So, of course, I “volunteer” 😂. We went down to Antarctica-the best tour of duty in my eight years in the USCG. Sir, much respect to you and your mates, thank you for your service, and stay safe 🙏

Thank you Юьщр for sharing moments from your everyday life that most of us don't get to experience in our lifetime. Be healthy and good luck!

Amazing story!! Thank you for sharing and serving!! God Bless you and the others that are stationed with you...

Love this, applied to be a pilot with the 109th, I live right down the road and my friend used to be sqdrn cmdr. Thanks for serving and sharing! Very informative. Looks fun.

So awesome to see what you guys do. Thank you for your service

Great experience your having. Very few people ever get to set foot down in the Antarctic. Thanks for your service.

The blue sky is amazing. Thanks for sharing this.

Great video, super interesting. 🙏for your service to the country!

Retired from the USAF 23 years ago. One thing's for certain. No one goes AWOL. God Bless You my friend.

Gotta say Mr. Polanco, that was a really nice video. You take care.

Great Video. Thanks for sharing. You are blessed to work/stay there

loving the content bro, just subscribed!

you have a great job, and thank you for serving our country!

Love this Content Zee.

Good work. Fun fact: The U.S.A.F. maintains the Operation Deep programme out of Christchurch, New Zealand. There is a section of tarmac next to the international terminal where the R.N.Z.A.F. and U.S.A.F. have operations side by side. The International Antarctic Centre is just across Orchard Road. I work across the road at one of the rental car yards, so I see U.S.A.F. planes coming and going on a regular basis. We see your C-130's and C-17's a lot - I think I saw 3 C-130's on the tarmac when I was working on Thursday.

Really great video, thank you. Informative, educational, and your sound track is pretty good too.

This is so awesome! I was in the army and now looking back it would have been awesome to be in the air force and flying in planes going to cool places.

I lived at Willy in the early 90s. Back and forth from Willy to the Ice runway. VXE-6 Engine shop. Great times.

Love the guys who don’t let weather bother them. Good job people good job. Way to lead. what great examples.

So Cool.... This is so cool!!!🤩🤩🤩

Looks like a great assignment. USAF vet here. I would volunteer for that assignment. Stay safe and warm!

Home sweet home. Good to see it again.

Awesome video man! Love it

I was there in 2000. I flew down on C-131 number 0492, flew back on a C-141 (number unknown). Fab experience, would love to go back.

My daughter is there right now. She is in the Coast Guard on the Polar Star. This is her second tour there. Last year she ran a 5 k run at McMurdo. Thank you for the video and for your service to our country.

Wonderful. Even a video on daily life at McMurdo Station has that pounding noise and finger snapping sound.

Does everyone work together to make sure systems r working like power and phone lines

Thank you, this was interesting :D

Thanks for the video. I'm going down there soon and was wondering what type of goggles and sunglasses you'd recommend while there?

I am guessing the most popular movie down there is The Thing! Lol

Took two trips down to "Mactown" while on the Star and had a blast. Weirdest thing was closing the EM Club at 11:00pm (This was when the navy was still down there) and seeing the sun still out like it was 2 in the afternoon.

Very cool!

So awesome. This is the recruiting content the armed forces needs. Hard work, good life. Though…the food! Sir where are the greens!?

Awesome

broo your food looks really good

How did you get stationed there

Great video

Great video. Simple editing, direct, but very much paints a superb picture of daily life. I like how fresh fruits and vegetables are rare/luxury, but long shelf-life items like savory meat and starches/potatoes are plentiful.

10/10 content 🔥

bro life there looks amazing

I need to go; it looks like fun.

The Air National Guard is only there in the summer time, its hard to hard for them to be there in the winter.

Well made bro!

yes you know what kind of video I want ;)

Very different than when I was there 30 years ago flying on the Herc’s in VXE-6

Hey, Thanks for your service to our country. God bless America. Great Video!

Wow Great :DD

I know it may sound cliche, but thank you for what you do for USA.

My son's down there now... 2nd go round. He builds and maintains the runways...

The ski’s on the plane 😊

I was just amazed he got socked feet in his flip flops!!

Great video brother. Probably a dumb question but how did you pay your home bills from there with bad internet and do things like renew car insurance. All autopay or just waited until you got back?

Is the WiFi free now for everyone? If so, is there a limit to how much Data you can use in a month ??

looks fun!!

And this cold wasteland was once roamed by life, and had all kinds of flora, its crazy if you think about it. I mean, who knows what is beneath all this ice...

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How do you perceive the existence of outer lands beyond the ice, and how might exploring them contribute to our understanding of Earth's geography, its place in the universe, and the potential presence of other suns or celestial phenomena beyond these distant boundaries?

What you do out there bro? I’m a electrician and I’m talking to a recruiter as in right now to see if I can get out there, any recommendations? Or any companies you would recommend

Hi, great video...do you know Jordan Konkul?

Looks great!! I think the only negative is that you are far from your family and the main cities. Nice editing btw

I don't miss this lol

It ended in the best part of the day!

Sir, pure where you come from sir?

Two things I noticed in this video… 1. Maglite holy shit lol 2. Combo crt tv with vcr lol… seeing both brings back memories 😂

Hoping they pull my application soon. Be safe.

5:54 red aircraft in the back ground is that a Canadian Kenn Borek Air Ltd Aircraft? Out of Calgary Alberta? 💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

Was that 106 air guard from gabreski?

What is being hooked to the center of the propeller?

Are tourist allowed there?

I don't know how y'all manage life up there!😮

Fun Fact- the word Arctic refers to bears and Antarctic the lack of bears. But they aren’t referring to polar bears that’s is just a happy coincidence.

I'll freely admit I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff, so here's my idiot question: If it takes of with skis attached to the wheels, I assume that means it has to land someplace with a snow or ice runway, how does it then transition from ski's to just wheels at some point since I assume eventually it's landing in a non-snow or ice covered runway?

Where’s the space ships 🤨😆

its like, the men of the nights watch? LOL man the wall! LMAO JK JK! im not one of those morons! awesome video.

Are you what we in the Navy were called a "Line Dawg" or a Plane Captain?

Hey Zay, was there a 24 hr Sun in sky

Interesting. I looked at taking a civilian contractor job there. But my wife was medically disqualified to take a job there so we passed. Being a Veteran we had enough time separated.

Can civilians that work there use that gym??? Like if you’re a production cook can you use it

why did you cut the cold start :(

At least you have internet access. We didn't have it in '92!

Do they have a library?

Heard stories about Artic Wives. Always wondered if they're true.

You guys need to speak up about all that fried food! 😂😂

Seems to he a good tour station but for the isolation and horrendous storms when everything is frozen and you can't even see where you are from the white outs.

The mom in me wants to fix the collars on your jacket and get you zipped up and cozy. 😊

What is the least favorite thing about the pole

Curious how power is generated there? Wind and solar?

Wow

What is your rotation up there?

Which officer did you piss off to make you go there?

Man ty so much for this im so fascinated by life on Antarctica its just so hard finding vlogs on it and ty for ya service brodie 🇺🇸

Wait, there's a variant of this plane with skis? How do they land states-side?

I love how you’re showing what you’re doing every day, but can you show us the extraterrestrials also and those creatures that’s underneath the water because we all know that you guys know about that. Why is it only military personnel?

I know it's cold there, but for some reason whenever I watch videos of Antarctica I feel like saying "it doesn't seem that cold" especially when the sun is so bright like that. Also, I thought yall would wear more cold weather clothing, but you're in just a beanie, thermals, gloves and a coat.

Just FYI…C-130 Js don’t have flight engineers….the mission computers took his job and the loadmaster do his preflight duties..

What is the warmest day you ever seen in Antarctica?

Props to you bro, I prefer the desert lol.