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How the U.S. military helps families in need each holiday season


How the U.S. military helps families in need each holiday season
TODAY
12/15/2020
It’s the season for giving back, and the U.S. military is doing just that.
Each year, branches of the military band together to help families around the world with traditions that began decades ago.
Here are three military-led initiatives that bring the holiday spirit full circle:
Operation Christmas Drop
Performed annually by the U.S. Air Force and featured in a recent Netflix original movie Operation Christmas Drop started as a humanitarian mission in 1952 when an aircrew noticed a group of people waving at them from the island of Kapingamarangi, an atoll in Micronesia. In response, the aircrew dropped a box of supplies attached to a parachute. That tradition has carried on year after year. ....

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