A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules is poised and ready during the Operation Christmas Drop Push Ceremony at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 13. Airmen from Andersen and the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, come together each year as part of a training exercise to drop thousands of pounds of donated supplies over the Micronesian Islands. To date, more than 800,000 pounds of supplies have been dropped to support the annual airlift operation. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Senior Airman Nichelle Anderson)