Santa brings love from above during Operation Christmas Drop

Photo by Senior Airman Aubree Owens
Photo by Senior Airman Aubree Owens

Santa brings love from above during Operation Christmas Drop

by Senior Airman Aubree Owens
36th Wing Public Affairs
December 15, 2021

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam --  U.S. Air Force crew members take a group photo in front of a U.S. Air Force C-130J assigned to Yokota Air Base, Japan, before the last day of flights to drop bundles during Operation Christmas Drop at Andersen Air Force Base, Dec. 10, 2021. OCD is the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian airlift operation, beginning in 1952. Today, airdrop operations include more than 55 islands throughout the Pacific. 

 

 

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