The US Air Force teamed up with Canada to deliver supplies to the northernmost inhabited place in...

Stratton Air National Guard Base, Scotia New York — Airmen from the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing delivered more than 100,000 pounds of cargo to the most northern permanently inhabited place in the world, September 26 to October 4, as part of a joint operation with the Canadian Armed Forces.

Twenty airmen from the 109th, based at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia, New York, flew seven missions to Canadian Forces Station Alert as part of the twice a year effort to supply the station.

The resupply mission is known as Operation Boxtop and takes place in the spring and fall.

"The US Air Force's New York Air National Guard is uniquely qualified to help us apply practical lessons from decades of successful Antarctic operations to the Arctic environment," said US Air Force Brig. Gen. Edward Vaughan, the deputy commander for the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command Region.