The first OCD team takes off at Yokota
Airman 1st Class Ryan Helie, 374th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron C-130J crew chief, marshals a C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 29, 2021. The initial Operation Christmas Drop’s crew members left Yokota early this morning. Operation Christmas Drop, or OCD, is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering food, tools and clothing to more than 55 remote islands in the South-Eastern Pacific, including the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe)