Several of us finally left Christchurch, New Zealand on October 12, 1993 and arrived on The Ice on a C-141 Starlifter. The flight took 5 hours and had 130 people crammed in like sardines. We landed on the Ice Runway - basically the frozen over part of McMurdo Sound that later in the summer will be open water! I finally set my date right on my camera once I arrived. Two days after arriving, I was on top of our Operations Building taking an observation when I snapped a photo of the helicopter landing pad. The UH-1 Huey helicopters in the photo belonged to the now decommissioned VXE-6 Ice Pirates.