Spider Hole:
Insert: 29 Dec 2020
In military slang, a “spider hole” is a type of camouflaged one-man foxhole, used for observation.
Spider holes were used during World War II by Japanese forces on many Pacific battlefields, including Leyte in the Philippines and Iwo Jima. Spider holes were also used by Vietnamese Communist fighters during the Vietnam War.
On December 12, 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces in Operation Red Dawn captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein hiding in what was characterized as a “spider hole” outside an Ad-Dawr farmhouse in Tikrit.
Dedicated to service men and women who served in the Vietnam War.
"...For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know."
Remarks:
Geocache has good cover and concealment, is urban masked and is mechanical.
Amplifying remarks:
"Lefty loosey, righty tighty" to gain entry to cache. Leave geocache better than you found it. Cache in, trash out. If you take something, leave something of equal or greater value.