 When the ice floe cracked and shortened the runway sufficiently to terminate aircraft resupply operations, station CHARLIE had to be evacuated.Meanwhile, on 7 March 1957, with several commercial house trailers, the Northeast Air Command established a station called "BRAVO" on the iceberg.The reoccupied T-3 continued to drift off the northern Canadian coastline, eventually arriving Alaska waters by July 1959, where air support responsibilities were transferred to Alaskan bases.