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Volunteers from the 605th Military Airlift Support Squadron, the Andersen Air Force Base Leadership School, and the Navy position boxes of donated items for Christmas Drop onto a truck. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

Sailors from the tank landing ship USS RACINE (LST-1191) paint the interior walls of a hospital ward, one of several civic action projects undertaken by the vessel's crew members

Builder 1ST Class Jeffrey A. Stevens and Steelworker 2nd Class Daniel O. Hurt repair toilet facilities at an elementary school on the island of Yap. The men, members of a United States (US) Navy construction battalion, are part of a Civic Action Team deployed to the area to aid villagers with construction projects and offer vocational training

CPT Mel Soterlund, navigator, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing, makes calculations as he guides his C-130 Hercules aircraft toward a Micronesian island during a Christmas Drop mission. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

Steelworker Second Class (SW2) Frank Luevanos uses a cutting torch to cut a piece of sheet metal in the welding shop of the Naval Mobil Construction Battalion Three (NMCB-3) Civic Action Team compound

Personnel from the 345th and 21st Tactical Airlift Squadrons prepare to release a package out of the cargo bay of their C-130 Hercules aircraft, as Santa Claus (MGEN Alexander K. Davidson, commander, 22nd Air Force) stands by. Donated Christmas gifts are being parachuted onto local islands

Three crewmen, one dresses as Santa, push boxes out of a 374th Airlift Squadron C-130 Hercules aircraft while delivering 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

SSGT Tony Thompson, loadmaster with the 21st Tactical Airlift Squadron, watches as a Christmas Drop container floats toward its destination. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

A sailor and a member of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 do restoration work on the Spanish Wall, one of several civic action projects undertaken by the Seabees and crew members of the tank landing ship USS RACINE (LST 1191)

Construction Mechanic Third Class (CM3) Tina Lindner works on one of the many generators which act as auxiliary power sources during typhoons and power outages. These units can be transported to the field where they are used for power sources on job sites

Pallets of books for local schools are unloaded from the tank landing ship USS RACINE (LST 1191) as part of a civic action project

CHIEF Steelworker Ignacio P. Lopez rappels from a wall during a Civic Action Team training exercise. The team, composed of United States Navy construction battalion members, is deployed to the island of Yap to aid villagers with construction projects and offer vocational training