Airmen with the Royal Australian Air Force push a care package out of a C-130J Super Hercules 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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