Air Force Airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, look out on the Islands of Micronesia Dec. 14 during Operation Christmas Drop 2010. Operation Christmas Drop is the Air Force’s longest-running humanitarian campaign, which began in 1952. Airmen today continue the tradition, delivering supplies to remote islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Yap, Palau, Chuuk and Pohnpei. Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson

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