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christmas drop . It's just magical 

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because there's no ship to some of 

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these islands for five or six months 

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And sometimes that's just a random 

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yacht , you know , so there's no mail , 

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there's no medicines coming in . Uh , 

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so with the christmas drop , we can 

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just drop right into their island and 

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give them a little stuff for christmas 

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for the kids and everything from fish 

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hooks , two parachutes . They just , 

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they use every piece of that christmas 

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drop during christmas drop . What I do 

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is I have all the islands on the air . 

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I spent many years putting in these 

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radios with solar power to talk to the 

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island's , talked to the plains , be 

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sure everything is safe or safety 

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record is pretty good because of the 

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communication links we have from the 

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University of Guam here to the islands 

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and you know , the island's fairly well 

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have been all the islands on the 

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christmas drop list community is a big 

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part of this christmas drop as 

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everybody knows . So in coordinating 

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the donations all throughout the years 

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and running the fundraisers . Mhm . 

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It doesn't matter what date it is when 

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that christmas drop plane comes over . 

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That's our christmas out there and it's 

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the biggest day of the year for them . 

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So that stopped that the whole village , 

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the chief opens it all up , lays it all 

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out an orderly matter and it starts 

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distributing it out 

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And it's been that way since 1952 when 

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the first plane came over , 

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they're still living basically the same . 

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Mm hmm . These low 

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level drops at the Air Force and 

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there's , there's no one else in the 

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world that has this much practice and 

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as good at it as they are . Hopefully 

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it will continue as long as I live and 

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way past that . As long as I can keep 

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the communications up . And as long as 

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the air force keeps bringing those 

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C130s , we're gonna be doing this as 

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long as we can . The best thing they 

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have in the islands . 

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Really ? 

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Mm hmm , mm hmm . 

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They're very good at . So we appreciate 

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the Air Force and now with the 

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International Association with the 

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Australian and japanese . Mhm . 

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Uh this is a major effort . I know a 

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lot for a lot of the airmen . Uh this 

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is the best thing that they've ever 

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done in the Air Force and this is the 

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feel good thing . You know , they do a 

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lot of important things but this is 

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their feel good week to be here and 

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helping all these people and everybody 

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is so appreciative