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Santa’s Helpers in the Pacific

624th Regional Support Group

Dec. 13, 2019 | 1:39

The Air Force Reserve’s 44th Aerial Port Squadron, part of the 624th Regional Support Group, supports aerial port operations mid-December for the 734th Air Mobility Squadron at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during Operation Christmas Drop 2019. OCD is the Department of Defense’s longest recurring humanitarian mission with a long-standing annual tradition of packaging and delivering donated food, tools and toys to more than 56 remote Southeast Pacific islands, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau.

During the weeklong international effort, U.S. Pacific Air Forces airpower ambassadors from Andersen AFB, Guam, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, and Yokota Air Base, Japan, worked with partners from the Japanese, Australian and New Zealand air forces with observers from Bangladesh, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. This effort provided low-cost, low-altitude training air drops. The aerial delivery served as valuable interoperability training for the partner nations while delivering various donations provided by private donors, charitable organizations and the University of Guam. OCD is a U.S. Air Force annual tradition since 1952.

Unit: 624th Regional Support Group, 44th Aerial Port Squadron

Producer: Jerry Bynum, 624th Regional Support Group Public Affairs

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