Christmas Drop
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- SSgt Josh Plant, 36th Airlift Squadron flight engineer, completes a takeoff and landing data card before a C-130 Hercules departs here on the first day of Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 16. Operation Christmas Drop, the longest running humanitarian airlift mission in the world, delivers supplies to remote islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands of Yap, Palau, Chuuk and Pohnpei. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Kimberly Spinner)