Staff Sgt. Joseph Arcega, a loadmaster with the 36th Airlift Squadron, stands ready to push an airdrop package from the ramp of a C-130J Super Hercules during Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 11, 2017, near the island of Fais. Operation Christmas Drop allows the aircrews to execute professional airlift through dynamic delivery airdrop with unsurveyed drop zones -- world-class airlift training that cannot be obtained virtually anywhere else in the world. ( Air Force

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