While most of us in Delaware are desperate to cool down during this recent heat wave, a group of Delaware Air National Guard airmen are focusing on staying warm during their annual two-week training mission.
Thirty airmen from the 166th Civil Engineer Squadron -- part of the 166th Airlift Wing -- left Sunday morning for Canadian Forces Station Alert, the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, about 500 miles from the North Pole. They will be helping the Canadian Air Force with the construction of a heated storage building during their training mission.
Their arrival comes during the warmest time of the year at Alert, a self-contained base on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island. Temperatures typically range between 35 and 40 degrees, balmy compared with the minus-40-degree temperatures in winter, said Chief Master Sgt. Ron Marandola, superintendent of the squad.
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