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Air Scouts Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/1/2025
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Wanted to make a nice and easy puzzle with a bit of history.

Air Scouts, or later Air Explorers, were a program of, then, the Boy Scouts of America from 1942-1965. The program was like the Sea Scouts, which still exist today, but instead based around airplanes and air activities. Originally in Air Scouts, there were four ranks. The fourth is quite the rare because of the exuberantly hard requirements. Then with the overall re-do of the Senior Scouting program in 1949 the Air Scouts became the Air Explorers and followed the traditional explorer advancement of Apprentice, Bronze, Gold, and Silver, with special aviation based requirements. The program folded in 1965 and was kind of replaced by Aviation Exploring, which was discontinued in 1998 with the overall reconstruction of the Exploring Division. If you would like to learn more about this, this is a good resource

To get to the coordinates all you need to do is find the answers to these trivia questions and substitute the numbers you get from your answer for the letter of the question.

N 45° AA.BAC′ W 122° DE.FGH′

A.What Color of Blue Did Air Scouts and Air Explorers Wear?

    1. Navy

    2.Royal

    3.Sky Blue

B.What is the name of the Air Scouts' (1942-49) Highest Rank?

    6.Airman

    7.Ace

    8.Soaring Eagle

    9.Pilot

C.Last Digit of Enrollement in Air Explorers in 1960

D.What is the Last Boy Scout Rank where you could get a Candidate Award for?

    3.Tenderfoot

    4.Eagle

    5.First Class

    6.Life

E.What color where the Specialist Badges or Rating Strips?

    0.Red

    1.Sky Blue

    2.Royal Blue

F.What colors are on the Air Explorer Silver Medal Ribbon?

  6. Red, White and Blue

  7.Red and Blue

  8.Green and Red

  9.Sky blue and Royal Blue

G.What was the name of the group leader for an Air Scout group?

    5.Pilot

    6.Air Traffic Controller

    7. Squadron Leader

H. How Many propellers are on the Air Scout Apprentice Award?


Please Be Careful when re-placing the cache.

FTF Prize is an unactivated trackable, it's not in the cache, as it will not fit. Please track me down at an event, I will be at the Oregon: Where It All Began Block Party.

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)