MSgt. Toyonaga Toshihisa, left, and TSgt. Takahashi Tetsuki, both loadmasters with the JASDF 1st TAW, watch as a RAAF C-130J Hercules taxis along the flightline on December 8, 2015, at Andersen AFB. The 64th year of Christmas Drop, which began in 1952, marked the first time international aviators from Japan and Australia joined the humanitarian airdrop mission. [USAF photo by SSgt. Alexander W. Riedel]
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News: USAF, RAAF and JASDF launch Operation Christmas Drop 2015 [2015-12-09]
With the holiday season now in full swing, C-130 Hercules aircrews and support personnel from Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Royal Australian Air Force and 374th Airlift Wing, Yokota Air Base, Japan, began spreading cheer and joy while practicing critical humanitarian aid/disaster relief training by delivering donated goods via C-130 to more than 56 of the Pacific's most remote, populated islands.
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