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  • Operation Christmas Drop Practice

    Operation Christmas Drop continues to be an important annual tradition with a long history of providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to the Pacific region. Events like Operation Christmas Drop 2024 allow participating nations an opportunity to provide needed assistance to remote

  • Be the Anchor: Ruck March to Raise Suicide Awareness

    Team Andersen Airmen participate in a Suicide Prevention Month Memorial Ruck at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Sept. 6, 2024. The Suicide Prevention Ruck memorializes veterans who have committed suicide and is held to spread awareness and prevent further battles lost.

  • Mokil Atoll native flies home for OCD

    Nanako Lipai, a Mokil Atoll native, and members of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) 401st Tactical Airlift Squadron push bundles of humanitarian aid out of a JASDF C-130H Hercules during Operation Christmas Drop 2023 (OCD 23) over Mokil Atoll, Dec. 6, 2023. This was Lipai’s third time flying

  • OCD 23 flies with international observers

    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, schoolbooks and clothing to more than 20,000 islanders across 58 remote islands throughout the Pacific.

  • Santa 63 brings love from above

    Operation Christmas Drop is the Department of Defense’s longest-running humanitarian airlift operation, beginning in 1952. Today, airdrop operations include more than 55 islands throughout the Pacific.

  • 70th Annual Operation Christmas Drop kicks off Dec. 6 in Guam

    U.S. and partner nation Airmen are set to participate in the Department of Defense’s longest running humanitarian assistance training mission out of Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, beginning Dec. 6, 2021. Operation Christmas Drop, or OCD, is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and

  • Airmen and Mañe'lu children decorate boxes for OCD

    Children with Mañe'lu and Airmen from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, draw and write messages on a box during a volunteer event at Toto Garden, Mongmong-Toto-Maite, Nov. 18th, 2021. The two Airmen from 36 CPTS volunteered through Andersen Air Force Base’s Sister Village Sister Squadron program and