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Leaders from across the Indo-Pacific theater push a bundle of gifts and supplies into a C-130J Super Hercules during the OCD push ceremony at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 9, 2024.

(Senior Airman Jarrett Smith, U.S. Air Force)

ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam -- Leaders from across the Indo-Pacific theater push a bundle of gifts and supplies into a C-130J Super Hercules during the OCD push ceremony at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Dec. 9, 2024. Conducted annually from Andersen, OCD delivers around 82,000 pounds of supplies and gifts in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau, benefiting over 42,000 islanders while covering approximately 1.8 million square miles of airspace.

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