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Operation Christmas Drop box build-up complete

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The last 2007 Operation Christmas Drop box build-up took place Dec. 8; a "push" ceremony will occur Dec. 12 at 1:30 p.m. in Hangar 3; and the first drop is scheduled for Dec. 14.

Every year in December, Team Andersen and the 36th Airlift Squadron from Yokota AB, Japan, drop humanitarian supplies donated by the Guam community over the Micronesian Islands as part of a training exercise. 

This will be the 55th year of Operation Christmas Drop. Team Andersen will make 74 drops over 71 islands, culminating in the largest Operation Christmas Drop in the history of Andersen.

Fishing nets, tools, construction materials, school supplies, shoes, toys and clothing will be dropped in boxes weighing nearly 400 pounds from a C-130 Hercules to aid people of smaller islands that do not have airstrips or major ports.