Ruth Ruffin, Team Charleston Spouses Club member, places cookies in a box during the Annual Cookie Drop Dec. 6, 2012, at the Joint Base Charleston - Air Base Chapel Annex. Operation cookie drop has been an Air Force tradition celebrated at bases around the world during the holiday season to show appreciation to war fighters overseas and young Airmen and Sailors living in the dorms, who are unable to be with their families during the holidays. This year’s Cookie Drop collected more than 500 boxes of homemade treats for dorm residents and enough treats to ship overseas for 140 deployed Airmen from JB Charleston. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Chacarra Walker)

Ruth Ruffin, Team Charleston Spouses Club member, places cookies in a box during the Annual Cookie Drop Dec. 6, 2012, at the Joint Base Charleston - Air Base Chapel Annex. Operation cookie drop has been an Air Force tradition celebrated at bases around the world during the holiday season to show appreciation to war fighters overseas and young Airmen and Sailors living in the dorms, who are unable to be with their families during the holidays. This year’s Cookie Drop collected more than 500 boxes of homemade treats for dorm residents and enough treats to ship overseas for 140 deployed Airmen from JB Charleston. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Chacarra Walker)

Phylis McComb, spouse of Col. Richard McComb, Joint Base Charleston Commander, ties a box during the Annual Cookie Drop Dec. 6, 2012, at the Joint Base Charleston - Air Base Chapel Annex. Operation cookie drop has been an Air Force tradition celebrated at bases around the world during the holiday season to show appreciation to war fighters overseas and young Airmen and Sailors living in the dorms, who are unable to be with their families during the holidays. This year’s Cookie Drop collected more than 500 boxes of homemade treats for dorm residents and enough treats to ship overseas for 140 deployed Airmen from JB Charleston. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Airman 1st Class Chacarra Walker)