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The first OCD team takes off at Yokota

A C-130J Super Hercules assigned to the 36th Airlift Squadron takes off at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Nov. 29, 2021, bounding for the Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. The initial Operation Christmas Drop’s crew members left Yokota early this morning. Operation Christmas Drop, or OCD, is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering food, tools and clothing to more than 55 remote islands in the South-Eastern Pacific, including the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. (U.S. Air Force photo by Yasuo Osakabe)

PHOTO BY: Yasuo Osakabe
VIRIN: 211129-F-PM645-3587.JPG
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CAMERA

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

LENS

EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM

APERTURE

14

SHUTTERSPEED

1/200

ISO

250

IMAGE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN

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