Royal Australian Air Force LAC Jake Mahony, 37th Squadron C-130J Super Hercules avionics technician out of RAAF Base Richmond, Australia, looks out over the atoll of Nukuoro, Federated States of Micronesia, prior to assisting the loadmasters with a Low-Cost, Low-Altitude airdrop during Operation Christmas Drop 2018, Dec. 13, 2018. In its 67th year, OCD is the world’s longest running airdrop training mission, providing critical supplies to 56 Micronesian islands, impacting approximately 20,000 people across million square nautical miles of operating area.

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