There's a great book that really demonstrates the culture the NSF/Mil contractors have set up there https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp... by an unfortunately now dead author.

If you like this, I recommend "Big Dead Place" (https://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp...) by Nicholas Johnson, a garbageman at McMurdo.