Air Drop Operations

This marks the 62nd year of Operation Christmas Drop, which began in 1952, making it the world's longest running airdrop

Members of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, along with Dutch, German, Polish and Spanish prepare to perform a

Footage from crewmembers at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point explaining how air drop operations work from an HC-130 Hercules

The US Army air drops packages of shoes to local civilians from a Chinook helicopoter during Operation Shoe Fly in

U.S. Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 (VMGR-252) and U.S. Army Soldiers with 303rd Psychological Operations Company (33rd

Coast Guard aircrew from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., practice dropping rescue equipment from the ramp of a flying C-130

35,000 pounds of water dropped in seconds. Nailed it!

Naval Special Warfare Group Four and Special Boat Team Twenty Air Operations conduct a sequential air drop from a C-17

Riggers with Task Force Lifeliner rig equipment for Low Cost Low Altitude aerial delivery missions for the warfighters in Afghanistan

C-17A Globemaster III crew members from the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron load pallets at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, and perform an