U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dmitri Sokgobenzon, a joint airdrop inspector and loadmaster with the 36th Airlift Squadron, directs a forklift toward a C-130 Hercules aircraft at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during the 62nd annual Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 9, 2013. Christmas Drop started in 1952 as a training mission and has since become the longest-running Department of Defense mission in full operation as well as the longest-running humanitarian airlift in the world.