Operation Cookie Drop delivers holiday joy Published Dec. 7, 2007 By Tyler Hemstreet Staff writer MCCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. -- Airmen living in the dorms here can expect to receive a small bag of holiday joy delivered straight to their room next week. It's all part of Operation Cookie Drop, as the Officers and Enlisted Spouses Clubs and base volunteers are collecting and assembling nearly 600 bags of cookies to hand out to Airmen living in the dorms. The annual event serves as something nice the club members can do for Airmen living in the dorms away home around the holidays, said Debbie McCauley, a member of the OSC who's been helping with Operation Cookie Drop for the last couple years. "Everyone rallies together from across the base community to make cookies for the event," Mrs. McCauley said. Students from Carter Lake Elementary are doing their part by decorating the bags and students from Woodbrook Middle School are helping assemble the bags. The First Sergeants Club then delivers the bags to the dorm residents. The bags give Airmen a nice holiday surprise when they come across them, said Master Sgt. Bill Baker, 62nd Mission Support Squadron, a first sergeant who's helped deliver bags for the last couple years. "They see how the bags are decorated and it's pretty touching for them," Sergeant Baker said. Donated cookies can be dropped off at the chapel support center from 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and from 6:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday. Organizers are requesting that people try and avoid chocolate chip cookies so they can get a good variety of choices for Airmen. They are also asking that cookies be dropped off in a disposable container with a note telling how many cookies are in the container.