Air Force Airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, load boxes of donated goods worth more than $93,000 onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft prior to take-off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 14, during Operation Christmas Drop 2010. This year, more than 60 boxes, weighing in at more than 20,000 pounds total, will be dropped to 55 islands. Operation Christmas Drop is the Air Force’s longest-running humanitarian campaign, which began in 1952. Airmen today continue the tradition, delivering supplies to remote islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas

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Air Force Airmen from the 36th Airlift Squadron out of Yokota Air Base, Japan, load boxes of donated goods worth more than $93,000 onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft prior to take-off from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 14, during Operation Christmas Drop 2010. This year, more than 60 boxes, weighing in at more than 20,000 pounds total, will be dropped to 55 islands. Operation Christmas Drop is the Air Force’s longest-running humanitarian campaign, which began in 1952. Airmen today continue the tradition, delivering supplies to remote islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, Yap, Palau, Chuuk and Pohnpei. Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson

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