An Airman with the Royal Australian Air Force pushes a pallet toward the back of a C-130J Super Hercules during an Operation Christmas Drop sortie Dec. 11, 2017, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Over the course of 12 days, Airmen with the RAAF, Air Force and Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defence Force) will train together on Low-Cost Low-Altitude airdrop tactics and procedures over unsurveyed drop zones while providing criticial supplies to 56 Micronesian Islands, impacting about 20,000 people covering million square nautical miles of operating area. ( Air Force photo by Staff Sgt

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An Airman with the Royal Australian Air Force pushes a pallet toward the back of a C-130J Super Hercules during an Operation Christmas Drop sortie Dec. 11, 2017, at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Over the course of 12 days, Airmen with the RAAF, Air Force and Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defence Force) will train together on Low-Cost Low-Altitude airdrop tactics and procedures over unsurveyed drop zones while providing criticial supplies to 56 Micronesian Islands, impacting about 20,000 people covering million square nautical miles of operating area. ( Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Smoot)

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