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Minot AFB isn't fazed by no stinkin' polar vortex

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photo via Minot AFB

Minot Air Force Base is unfazed by the polar vortex. 

The military installation, which is an hour south of the U.S.-Canadian border, is suffering some of the coldest polar vortex weather.  At publication, the temperature in Minot is -1 degrees, with a wind chill of -19 degrees.


But that didn't bother them.

Their social media accounts have been having fun with the frigid blast. 

It looks like they're doing what everyone else in the midwest and northeast U.S. wants to do:  hunker down.

Just to the south, the folks at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota, where it's a balmy 35 degrees, are just happy to not be with the guys in Minot.

At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakola, it's not about the weather, it's all about the accessories:

And at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, they worked right through it.

Hey, they may be cold, but they're having fun.

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