An Airman with the Koku Jieitai (Japan Air Self-Defence Force) records packages being air dropped during an Operation Christmas Drop sortie Dec. 11, 2017, over the Pacific Ocean. Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense’s longest running humanitarian airlift mission where C-130 crews drop low-cost low-altitude bundles that provide supplies to 56 Micronesian islands.( Air Force

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