Staff Sgt. Andrew Thompson, a loadmaster from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, waves to villagers on a remote Micronesian island during Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 8, 2016. This year marks 65 years of Operation Christmas Drop, a humanitarian airlift operation, which provides joint airlift training opportunities for both peace and wartime efforts.

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