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Containers filled with packages stand on rollers prior to being airdropped from the back of a 374th Tactical Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft during Christmas Drop mission. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

Boxes rigged with parachutes are loaded aboard a 374th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules aircraft for delivery 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

1LT Patrick Piche, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing pilot, surveys the area from the cockpit of his C-130 Hercules aircraft as he flies a Christmas Drop mission. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

Personnel from the 345th and 21st Tactical Airlift Squadrons load Christmas packages into the hold of a C-130E Hercules aircraft. Donated gifts are being parachuted onto islands in Micronesia

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

Volunteers from the 605th Military Airlift Support Squadron, the Andersen Air Force Base Leadership School, and the Navy pack items for Christmas Drop, a humanitarian airdrop effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season. Exact Date Shot Unknown

STAFF SGT. James Huber, flight engineer with the 21st Tactical Airlift Squadron, records data from the cockpit of a C-130 Hercules aircraft during a Christmas Drop mission. The annual airdrop is a humanitarian effort providing aid to needy islanders throughout Micronesia during the holiday season

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