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christmas drop . It's just magical

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because there's no ship to some of

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these islands for five or six months

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And sometimes that's just a random

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yacht , you know , so there's no mail ,

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there's no medicines coming in . Uh ,

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so with the christmas drop , we can

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just drop right into their island and

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give them a little stuff for christmas

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for the kids and everything from fish

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hooks , two parachutes . They just ,

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they use every piece of that christmas

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drop during christmas drop . What I do

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is I have all the islands on the air .

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I spent many years putting in these

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radios with solar power to talk to the

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island's , talked to the plains , be

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sure everything is safe or safety

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record is pretty good because of the

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communication links we have from the

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University of Guam here to the islands

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and you know , the island's fairly well

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have been all the islands on the

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christmas drop list community is a big

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part of this christmas drop as

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everybody knows . So in coordinating

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the donations all throughout the years

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and running the fundraisers . Mhm .

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It doesn't matter what date it is when

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that christmas drop plane comes over .

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That's our christmas out there and it's

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the biggest day of the year for them .

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So that stopped that the whole village ,

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the chief opens it all up , lays it all

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out an orderly matter and it starts

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distributing it out

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And it's been that way since 1952 when

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the first plane came over ,

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they're still living basically the same .

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Mm hmm . These low

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level drops at the Air Force and

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there's , there's no one else in the

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world that has this much practice and

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as good at it as they are . Hopefully

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it will continue as long as I live and

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way past that . As long as I can keep

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the communications up . And as long as

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the air force keeps bringing those

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C130s , we're gonna be doing this as

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long as we can . The best thing they

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have in the islands .

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Really ?

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Mm hmm , mm hmm .

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They're very good at . So we appreciate

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the Air Force and now with the

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International Association with the

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Australian and japanese . Mhm .

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Uh this is a major effort . I know a

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lot for a lot of the airmen . Uh this

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is the best thing that they've ever

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done in the Air Force and this is the

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feel good thing . You know , they do a

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lot of important things but this is

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their feel good week to be here and

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helping all these people and everybody

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is so appreciative