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NL Who's Who #17 Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/28/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

NL Who's Who is a series of seventeen caches dedicated to famous/important people from Newfoundland and Labrador. Each of the caches will require you to do a little bit of research on a particular person or group of individuals in order to obtain the final coordinates for that particular cache. The caches are all relatively easy finds and are all located on Bell Island.

NL Who's Who #17 is dedicated to Rick Hillier.

The coordinates listed above are false, go there and you will find nothing but the Atlantic Ocean.

The final coordinates for this cache are as follows:

N 47 AB.CDE W 052 VW.XYZ

Where:

A = Rick Hillier was born in 195_ Subtract 2 from this number.
B = He joined the military in 19_3.
C = Upon his retirement in 200_ he had put in 35 years of service. Add 1 to this number.
D = He was named Chief of the Defense Staff of the Canadian Forces on February 4, 200_.
E = He was named Chancellor of Memorial University in 200_.

V = Rick Hillier was in command of the NATO ISAF in Afghanistan in 200_. Add 1 to this number.
W = His first book entitled "A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War" was released in 200_. Subtract 1 from this number.
X = He started Project Hero, a scholarship program for the children of Canadian Forces personnel killed while on active military duty in 200_. Subtract 3 from this number.
YZ = He was named an Office of the Order of Canada in 20_ _. Add 20 to this number.

The container is a Green Micro and should not be hard to located once in the correct area.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Unatvat Ybj

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)