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AFB Prepping for Annual ‘Operation Christmas Drop’

Airman 1st Class Whitney Tucker
36th Wing Public Affairs

10/19/2011 – ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam (AFNS) — Airmen here are shifting into high gear in preparation for the 60th iteration of the Air Force’s longest-running, humanitarian-airlift mission — Operation Christmas Drop.

Since 1951, Operation Christmas Drop has been spreading the holiday spirit in the form of needed supplies to residents in some of the most remote parts of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands chain.

Operation Christmas Drop is a non-profit organization powered by volunteers from here and the local community and has to date, dropped more than 800,000 pounds of goods throughout the surrounding islands, officials said. Fundraising for this event is scheduled to kick-off with a 5K run/walk Nov. 19 followed by a bake sale at the base exchange Nov. 26. In addition to fundraisers, individual and group donations may also be made to the cause.

Manny Hechanova, a representative from the University of Guam, is responsible for communicating with the islands to determine what residents need most.

“We communicate by whatever means necessary to get islanders the supplies they need,” Hechanova said. “Primarily, we use radios, but for islands that are more remote, we must sometimes relay messages by fishing boat. Whatever we have to do to get goods where they need to be, we do.

“Some of the things we are looking for specifically are school supplies, potting soil, vegetable seeds, dental products, canned foods, clothing, toys and machetes,” he said.

After fundraising has concluded and all donations are collected, there will be a box-build where volunteers package the donated items into boxes capped with parachutes, officials said. During a push ceremony, representatives from the local community and here load the boxes onto the airlift aircraft.

“My goal this year is community outreach,” Captain Kwarteng said. “We are doing a good job so far, and I feel we will be relying on community support more than ever as budget cuts continue.”

Operation Christmas Drop delivers supplies to various islands throughout the CNMI, Palau, Yap and Chuuk.

“I really appreciate the support we have been getting from the community and personnel here on Andersen,” the captain continued. “Operation Christmas Drop could not be a success without the amazing support.”

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