U.S. airmen put their Santa hats back into storage over the weekend after successfully concluding the 73rd Operation Christmas Drop, according to the 374th Airlift Wing.

The first contingent of Marines moving from Okinawa to Guam will bunk at Andersen Air Force Base, Naval Base Guam or off-base, not the Corps’ Camp Blaz, a 4,000-acre, multibillion construction project still in the works.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he has selected businessman George Glass to serve as the United States’ next ambassador to Japan. Glass served as ambassador to Portugal during Trump’s pervious administration.

Inhabitants of this remote atoll rushed onto a beach Wednesday as a U.S. Air Force plane prepared to drop crates filled with much-needed supplies and some Christmas cheer.

The Air Force takes supplies to remote islands via military transport aircraft as part of Operation Christmas Drop. 

Hundreds of volunteers crowded into a hangar over the weekend to decorate about 220 boxes of food, supplies and toys to be airdropped to isolated communities across the South Pacific. 

Sailors assigned to the USS George Washington are currently prohibited from consuming any alcoholic beverages on or off base, ship spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Mark Langford said.

Two sailors assigned to the USS George Washington died within days of the aircraft carrier’s arrival at its new homeport in Japan, a ship spokesman confirmed.

The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Port Klang over the weekend, marking the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit to Malaysia in more than a decade following a high-profile bribery scandal involving a Malaysian contractor.

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the first such transit over the 110-mile-wide channel that separates mainland China from Taiwan since mid-September.