Cargo is off-loaded from a C-141B Starlifter, assigned to the 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Washington, while parked on a runway of ice at McMurdo Base, Antarctica. The C-141B and its crew is deployed to Christchurch, New Zealand, in support of Operation Deep Freeze. Deep Freeze is joint military operation of the U.S. Armed Forces and the New Zealand Defence Forces, providing logistic support for the U.S. National Science Foundation's Antarctic Program.