In Memory of Jeff Garber Traditional Cache
Episcodad: Found that the cache is missing and have decided to archive it as I think it has run its course.
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This cache is placed here in memory of Jeffrey Garber, one of the nicest guys I've had the pleasure to know. Jeff died of natural causes at age 43 on June 20th (2009) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower where he was serving as Command Master Chief of Carrier Air Wing 7. He was the wing’s highest-ranking enlisted sailor.
“Master Chief Garber was one of the finest individuals I have ever had the pleasure of knowing,” the carrier’s commander, Capt. Calvin Craig, said in a Navy statement. “He was the epitome of what a command master chief should be — at every turn selflessly taking care of the men and women of the air wing and the entire IKE Strike Group team."
Garber, from Hemingford, Neb., enlisted in the Navy in 1983. His at-sea assignments included USS Worden, USS Nimitz, USS Portland and Strike Fighter Squadron 34, where he served as command master chief. Garber reported to Carrier Air Wing 7, based at Oceana Naval Air Station, in June 2008. At the time of his death the carrier was in the Arabian Sea.
“His passing leaves a hole in our family. We out here at sea were Jeff’s ‘other’ family; the family he spent so many hours and days and years with over the course of his Navy career,” Rear Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of Carrier Strike Group Eight, said in a statement released by the Navy.
There are several entrances to this pretty little park where the cache is located including from Amberjack Drive, Hammerhead Lane, or Wahoo Court.
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