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Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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North Pole Flight Command celebrated the 300 day marker to Santa’s launch by welcoming Santa, for the first time this year, to North Pole Flight Command.

In a general gathering in the large hangar in Flight Command with more than 3000 elves in attendance Santa spoke at the invitation of Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command.

It was the first time this year Santa has said anything publicly to a large gathering of elves.

In his speech Santa thanked the many teams of elves working under the direction of North Pole Flight Command for their efforts last Christmas.

Santa forgot no one. He spoke of the Sleigh design team, the sleigh traffic controllers, the ships of the North Pole Navy, all the test flight teams of pilots and reindeer, and even the ground crews who cleared the snow on Christmas Eve.

Santa said the elves will commemorate the record-setting accomplishments of last year’s flight by wearing a special patch on their uniforms in the year ahead. Each elf gets a special certificate honoring the event with a personal letter of commendation from Santa for their contributions.

This made everyone really excited. Santa spoke only briefly after his flight, expressing his gratitude, but since that time he has been mostly quiet. It was good for the elves to hear all this from him.

Santa said that since we’re now at 300 days to launch is time to fully focus on Christmas this year.

He announced there will be a new sleigh in 2024 and it will feature a new design. That has been under debate by Flight Command leadership since New Year.

The Sleigh Department is very excited about that.

So we expect a timeline to be published soon of targets North Pole Flight Command will need to hit in order for Santa to launch on time.

A new sleigh design means an all new build, which means lots of test flights, which means a long season ahead of learning and preparation.

Stay tuned for more news, gang.

Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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North Pole Flight Command has formed the Regional Committee, which is charged with coordinating the setup and operation of Regional Tracking Centers in each sector.

Named to the committee are the following elves:

Elf Roger Star – Director North Pole Flight Command
Elf Buck Sanchez – Flight Operations Director at the North Pole
Elf Gertrude – Senior VP of Distribution
Elf Rusty Belz – Head Elf, North Pole State Department
Elf Agent X – Head Elf, North Pole Security
Elf Seymour Snow – Head Elf, Weather Department
Elf Victor – Head Elf, Reindeer Operations
Elf Ed Zachary – Director, North Pole News Department

Automatically assigned to the committee are each Elf Supervisor assigned to each sector. These elves are already scouting locations in their various sectors.

The Committee will be accepting feedback from elves around the world, doing research and compiling a list of 10 candidate sites in each sector over the next several months.

It is anticipated that locations will be determined and announced sometime after Leon Day on June 24th, 2024.

Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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North Pole Flight Command has conferred with the Department of Redundancy Department and it appears all the lists have been checked and double checked. Every Regional Tracking Center, every ship of the North Pole Navy, and every North Pole Department has completed and confirmed – Santa is now cleared for launch.

We expect an on-time launch from the North Pole in about an hour.

Please stay tuned to Kringle Radio for the latest in live news coverage.

Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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On the advice of North Pole Security and with Santa’s approval, the North Pole Navy has immediately activated additional vessels in support of Operation Merry Christmas. Here are the ship additions and their anticipated region of service:

SS Rudolph – North Sea
SS Charles Dickens – Red Sea
SS Navidad – Caribbean Sea
SS Chestnuts – Arabian Sea
SS Sleigh Bell – Barents Sea
SS Nicholas – South Indian Ocean
SS Tinsel – Sea of Japan

They will join previously deployed ships that were announced last week.

The nature of their service is unknown at this time and reported as “classified”, on command of North Pole Security.

This is a historic deployment. Never in history has the North Pole Navy had so many ships out during Operation Merry Christmas.