1 00:00:00,379 --> 00:00:02,546 We didn't even know that's what it was 2 00:00:02,546 --> 00:00:04,780 called before I joined the Air Force 3 00:00:04,789 --> 00:00:08,239 operation . Christmas . Drop my dad's 4 00:00:08,250 --> 00:00:10,069 island . It's called Cowal in 5 00:00:10,079 --> 00:00:12,609 Micronesia . Federated States of 6 00:00:12,619 --> 00:00:15,920 Micronesia . Once a year , sometimes , 7 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:19,889 maybe even once a couple years , the 8 00:00:19,899 --> 00:00:23,469 air force planes would just go by and 9 00:00:23,479 --> 00:00:26,989 do air drops . A lot of times it's what 10 00:00:27,579 --> 00:00:30,569 a lot of people donate school supplies , 11 00:00:30,579 --> 00:00:32,650 uh , clothes , um , you know , 12 00:00:32,659 --> 00:00:35,500 necessities and then they just drop it 13 00:00:35,509 --> 00:00:38,529 off on several of the tiny islands in 14 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:41,810 the Pacific . My dad , I remember his 15 00:00:41,819 --> 00:00:45,060 early experience with that . He used to 16 00:00:45,069 --> 00:00:47,729 tell us it would just be for every kid 17 00:00:47,740 --> 00:00:50,849 on the tiny island of s each one would 18 00:00:50,860 --> 00:00:54,369 receive like a little tiny box of 19 00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:58,020 number two pencils . And that for them 20 00:00:58,029 --> 00:01:00,799 was a lot and they didn't even know who 21 00:01:01,270 --> 00:01:04,360 was dropping off the supplies . They 22 00:01:04,370 --> 00:01:08,300 would just hear the planes , uh , go by 23 00:01:08,599 --> 00:01:10,655 and they know , oh , somebody in the 24 00:01:10,655 --> 00:01:13,440 air is about to drop something because 25 00:01:13,449 --> 00:01:15,699 that's what happened last time all the 26 00:01:15,709 --> 00:01:18,080 kids would , would run out and try and 27 00:01:18,089 --> 00:01:20,370 like , race with the planes and stuff . 28 00:01:20,779 --> 00:01:24,339 Uh , sometimes when it opens , 29 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:26,882 there's actually people there that wave 30 00:01:26,882 --> 00:01:28,993 down on them and , you know , they're 31 00:01:28,993 --> 00:01:31,260 waving , they don't even know who they 32 00:01:31,269 --> 00:01:33,959 are , what it's for . They just know 33 00:01:33,970 --> 00:01:36,569 that it happened previously and they're 34 00:01:36,580 --> 00:01:39,489 gonna get packages . Um , they didn't , 35 00:01:39,660 --> 00:01:41,760 back then . They didn't even , uh , 36 00:01:41,769 --> 00:01:45,000 have any types of recordings . So they 37 00:01:45,010 --> 00:01:46,732 didn't know that it was before 38 00:01:46,732 --> 00:01:48,940 Christmas . I didn't even know it was 39 00:01:48,949 --> 00:01:52,260 the Air Force until I joined . But when 40 00:01:52,269 --> 00:01:54,830 I heard about it , I said , oh , my 41 00:01:54,839 --> 00:01:58,730 goodness . All these years , my family , 42 00:01:58,739 --> 00:02:00,628 my cousins , they still get those 43 00:02:00,628 --> 00:02:03,989 packages . Last Christmas . My nieces , 44 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,300 my cousins , they still ran after the 45 00:02:06,309 --> 00:02:10,119 plane and went after the airdrop and to 46 00:02:10,130 --> 00:02:13,960 be , to come to know that I am in the 47 00:02:13,970 --> 00:02:17,449 Air Force and it's part of that , it , 48 00:02:17,979 --> 00:02:20,690 I'm so proud of that . I'm very , very 49 00:02:20,699 --> 00:02:24,570 proud . I do want to be a part of that , 50 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,740 that drop maybe sometime in the future .