Fort Bragg Operation Toy Drop Helps Families in Need

U.S. Army paratroopers wait to be assigned to chalks before participating in an airborne jump during the 17th Annual Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop, on Dec. 8, 2014 at Luzon Drop Zone, N.C. Operation Toy Drop is the world’s largest combined airborne operation and allows Soldiers the opportunity to help a less fortunate child in the Sandhill region to receive toys for the holidays.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc Ashley Keasler)

Operation Toy Drop
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Posted 4 days ago by Member 30091762

Dozens of parachute silhouettes raining down against the North Carolina sky are nothing out of the ordinary around Fort Bragg, but each December since 1998, airborne operations have taken on a different meaning to America's men and women in uniform with the Randy Oler Memorial Operation Toy Drop.

An annual opportunity for Fort Bragg's military community to help families in need over the holidays, Operation Toy Drop combines the efforts of Army, Air Force and civilian service organizations in a truly unique event.

Operation Toy Drop is a week-long, philanthropic project where Fort Bragg's paratroopers (or visiting paratroopers from across the nation) individually contribute new, unwrapped toys to be distributed to local children's homes and social service agencies.