Merry Christmas Drop from Woleai
The tail end of Woleai, an atoll consisting of 22 islands in the eastern Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, stands ready to receive five Low-Cost, Low-Altitude bundles as part of Operation Christmas Drop 2019, Woleai, Federated States of Micronesia, Dec. 10, 2019. Every December C-130 crews from Yokota Air Base, Japan, team up with the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force, and Royal New Zealand Air Force for OCD, a humanitarian aid and disaster relief training exercise designed to airdrop critical supplies to remote islands like Woleai throughout the FSM and the Republic of Palau. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Matthew Gilmore)