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In its 68th year, Operation Christmas Drop is the world’s longest running humanitarian airdrop training mission, providing critical supplies to 56 Micronesian islands, impacting approximately 20,000 people across 1.8 million square nautical miles of operating area. Operation Christmas Drop is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering food, tools, supplies and clothing to more than 56 remote islands in the South-Eastern Pacific and this year 176 bundles of supplies were delivered. This is the first year that the Royal New Zealand Air Force has joined Operation Christmas Drop. This is also fifth year in a row that allied partners from the Japan Self-Defense Force and the Royal Australian Air Force have participated. Aerial delivery necessary for Operation Christmas Drop serves as valuable training and allows aircrews to practice dynamic delivery airlift onto un-surveyed drop zones. To do so, C-130 crews from all four nations employ Coast Humanitarian Air Drop or CHAD which incorporates low-cost and low-altitude also called LCLA. Combined, CHAD and LCLA provide a unique humanitarian aid and disaster relief or wartime capability to all participating nations that enables crews to respond rapidly anywhere in the indo-pacific.
| Date Taken: | 12.17.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 12.17.2019 21:28 |
| Category: | Package |
| Video ID: | 730214 |
| VIRIN: | 191217-F-UH796-001 |
| Filename: | DOD_107536727 |
| Length: | 00:02:00 |
| Location: | GU |
| Downloads: | 7 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 7 |
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