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U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Allison Martin

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Allison Martin ()

U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Andrew Wing, petroleum, oil, and lubricant technician with the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, hands out supplies for care packages on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 1, 2023. Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian airlift operation which consists of packaging and delivering donated supplies such as food, fishing equipment, school books and clothing to more than 20,000 islanders across 56 remote islands throughout the Pacific.

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