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Connecting from the Arctic Circle

MSgt Miles Christensen and MSgt Craig Kortan, both with the 821st Support Squadron, Thule Air Base, Greenland, transfer commercial internet terminals to their final installation site. Thule AB is the northernmost U.S. military installation, situated roughly 1,000 miles from the North Pole, with a 500-person community made up of military, Danish, and Greenlandic members, and no roads to surrounding villages.

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