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Air Force Senior Airman Amanda Nix carries out postflight procedures during Operation Christmas Drop at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 4, 2024. Christmas Drop is the Defense Department’s longest-running humanitarian airlift mission, beginning in 1952 when an Air Force B-29 aircrew noticed islanders waving from below and decided to drop supplies as a gesture of goodwill.

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