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The Shirt #8 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 5/8/2021
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


I decided to try my hand at a little geo art.  I was recently on vacation in Florida and saw a lot of these but there aren’t many here so I wanted to give it a try

This is a simple diamond, but it has great significance to me.  If you are familiar with the Air Force then you will recognize the diamond insignia added to the Senior NCO chevrons as the symbol of the First Sergeant.  The “Shirt” as we are commonly called, is 100% focused on taking care of Airmen.  When you put on the diamond and become a First Sergeant you dedicate your time and energy on the health, morale, discipline and welfare needs of Airmen.  We take care of the people so that they can focus on completing the mission.  As the Air Force First Sergeant’s Creed concludes: My job is people – Every one is my business!

For me personally, being a First Sergeant was the most rewarding 6 years of my Air Force career and most shirts will tell you the same!

The puzzles for all 9 are very straight forward, I have listed the cipher/codes used.  All you have to do is figure out which one goes with which cache and find passcode or key as appropriate (all are in the description).

Caesar
Vigenere - standard
Vigenere - autokey
Binary
Hexadecimal
Octal
Morse Code
Atbash
Hexahue
01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101111 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001110 00110011 00111001 00100000 00110000 00110010 00101110 00110101 00110010 00110111 00100000 01010111 00110001 00110000 00110100 00100000 00110011 00111000 00101110 00110101 00111001 00110110

 

Congrats to WingsAndTales for the FTF!!

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

trbpnpuvatgbbyobk.pbz ehzxva.pbz

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)