Local community volunteers pause for a photograph with Santa Claus aboard an Alaska Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III, operated to the 144th Airlift Squadron, during Operation Santa Claus at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 16, 2022. Operation Santa Claus is the AKANG’s yearly community relations and support program that provides gifts to children in remote communities across the state. In partnership with the Salvation Army and more than a dozen volunteers, the program delivered 1,780 pounds of gifts, backpacks, hygiene supplies, and books to 325 children in Scammon Bay.

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