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Members of the 22nd Military Airlift Squadron and local Samoans unload electrical generator cable from the rear of a C-5 Galaxy aircraft at the Pago Pago International Airport

Army SPECIALIST 4 Aristides Gonzalez, from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, receives advice from his coach during a fight with Paulo Tuvale of Samoa at the 1984 Summer Olympics. Gonzalez is representing Puerto Rico

LT Mark Shelvey of the Royal Australian Navy, MAJ Jack Snyder, Detachment 5 Commander for Air Rescue Services, and Sonny Schuster, commissioner of police for the city of Apia, coordinate the distribution of supplies by U.S. Army and Australian helicopters. Supplies will be transported to the islands of Upolu and Savaii during disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Ofa

A tent is erected amid the houses and debris, destroyed by Cyclone Val on American Samoa, by members of the 100th Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division, American Samoa. Exact Date Shot Unknown

Local contractors work to get a US supplied generator on-line. The generator and other hardware were flown to Pago Pago by a 22nd Military Airlift Squadron C-5 Galaxy aircraft

During a commemorative ceremony at Hickam Air Force Base (AFB) Hangar 35, inside a US Air Force (USAF) C-17A Globemaster III, members of a joint honor guard prepare to carry the remains believed to be of unaccounted-for Americans, recovered in Vietnam and Papua New Guinea. The remains will be taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command's Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC CIL) where they will attempt to positively identify the remains so they can be returned to their families

A villager from Palau and his family head out to an island to fish

An airman dressed as Santa is assisted with his helmet as he prepares to push boxes rigged with parachutes out the back of a 374th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft to islanders of the Federated States of Micronesia. Flown by crews from the 345th and the 21st Airlift Squadrons, the C-130 is participating in Christmas Drop '92, the 40th anniversary of the humanitarian effort. Every Christmas since 1952, food, clothing, tools and toys donated by residents of Guam have been delivered by air to 40 Micronesian islands

Equipment Operator Second Class (EO2) Larry Fulbright instructs a local worker of Palau in the basic functions of carpentry. After an apprenticeship of one year of training for the local work force, the Seabees hold an awards ceremony for the local residents who are then ready to join the local labor force

The mission commander aboard a 374th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft examines the drop zone as he prepares to deliver boxes of gifts to islanders of the Federated States of Micronesia. Flown by crews from the 345th and the 21st Airlift Squadrons, the C-130 is participating in Christmas Drop '92, the 40th anniversary of the humanitarian effort. Every Christmas since 1952, food, clothing, tools and toys donated by residents of Guam have been delivered by air to 40 Micronesian islands

Santa nose art painted on a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the 374th Airlift Wing commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Christmas air drops to islanders of the Federated States of Micronesia. Crews from the 345th and 21st Airlift Squadrons are assigned to fly the C-130 for the Christmas Drop '92 missions. Every Christmas since 1952, food, clothing, tools and toys donated by residents of Guam have been delivered by air to 40 Micronesian islands

CHIEF Steelworker Ignacio P. Lopez converses with local villagers on the island of Yap. Lopez is a U.S. Navy construction battalion member assigned to a Civic Action Team deployed to the area to aid villagers with construction projects and offer vocational training