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Operation Deepfreeze '73 was a little boring until a "Purple rock" was discovered at a remote landing site, in one of the "Dry" valleys. A crewchief (Gary) made the discovery and hatched a plan with the HAC, Lt. Mike Riley. In a nutshell, they would return to the Helo hangar and like Frank Sinatra: "Start spreading the news..." about the OVERHEARD conversation between two scientists and purple rocks. It seems, they relayed to anyone who would listen, that this particular type of rock, purple in color, was judged to be over 30 million years old. If one could be found and brought back, it would mean a great deal to the scientific world, and probably worth a heck of a lot of money to the finder. It was also believed, as they bit their respective tongues, that there were not very many of these purple rocks left on the continent, due to "Shifting Earth Phenomenon; a condition exclusive to the South Pole region. And with that tho