Airmen with the Royal Australian Air Force perform a preflight inspection prior to 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

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