Lt. Col. Frances McClure, dentist with the 916th Aerospace Medicine Flight, Hospital Midshipman Tim Owen fro Camp Lejeune and Senior Airman Samantha Crawford from Lackland AFB, Texas, work on a patient in Alaska as part of Arctic Care 2010. (USAF photo courtesy of 916 AMDF)

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Lt. Col. Frances McClure, a dentist with the 916th AMDF and Senior Airman Samantha Crawford, from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, talk with an Iditarod musher during Arctic Care 2010. (USAF photo courtesy of 916 AMDF)

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Arctic angels

Published April 21, 2010

SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. -- Lt. Col. Frances McClure isn't missing the North Carolina weather. Well maybe she is.

Dr. McClure, a dentist with the 916th Aerospace Medicine Flight is currently deployed to Alaska as part of Arctic Care 2010.

Medical military members deploy to different locations each year to help support the needs of the local community.

Since April 18, Lt. Col. McClure, along with 13 other dentists, treated more than 900 patients and that number grows each day.

She'll return to the 916th, and the 70 degree weather, in late April.