After six years away from home, Army National Guard Sgt. Johnsey Hagel, Task Force Talon team leader, had the honor of returning for a mission with the U.S. Air Force, to drop packages to his island of Mog Mog during Operation Christmas Drop — the very event that inspired him to join the military.
Operation Christmas Drop is an annual Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering donated supplies such as food, fishing equipment, schoolbooks and clothing to more than 20,000 islanders across more than 50 remote islands throughout Micronesia and Palau.