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A man in a suit jacket receives a medal chest pin from a man in military uniform.

Barger Antarctic medal

Dr. Robert Barger III receives the Antarctic Service Medal from Civil Air Patrol Brig. Gen. Ed Phelka 65 years after he was chosen as a CAP cadet to join a joint military expedition to Antarctica called Operation Deep Freeze II.

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