An article on “Cape Cod Today” Web site by freelance reporter Jeff Blanchard focuses on one of the Air National Guardsmen who is part of the current Operation Deep Freeze mission, ferrying supplies and personnel at the Antarctica. Blanchard interviewed Brewster, Mass., resident Sal—a pilot and navigator with the New York ANG’s 109th Airlift Wing.
F-35As from the Vermont Air National Guard have deployed to Puerto Rico in recent days, continuing a major buildup of U.S. Air Force assets in Latin America aimed at combating drug trafficking and pressuring the regime of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

