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The Antarctica Service Medal, one of the rarest of U.S. service awards, is received by Army Chief Warrant Officer Philip L. Thornton III (right), whose parents live in Sperryville.

Presenting the medal in recent ceremonies at Ft. Eustis, is Lieutenant Colonel James F. Hill, aviation officer at the fort.

WO Thornton was a member of a 13-man aviation detachment from Ft. Eustis that departed last October on a mission to support six major scientific programs in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, in the earth’s southernmost continent. The Antarctica

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