Double Mustard Stain in honor of Lucy's Ranger Traditional Cache
Double Mustard Stain in honor of Lucy's Ranger
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This cache is in honor of Lucy's Ranger. It is a small rubber made
container. The orginal contents was Army Men, small trinlkits and
stuff I found in the floor of my truck. When you are between a rock
and a hard place you might just find this cache!!! I am listing
Parking Cords for you:
FTF HONORS GO TO: MsStang523, SmithMtnXplorers, Mom*of*4boys
We are a proud member of the Military
Association of Geocachers (MAGC):
Parking Cords: N35 10.309 W78 58.234 This will require you to do
some minor bushwacking.... SYOTH................... On 11 April
1980, President Carter authorized the rescue mission to be
conducted thirteen days later, on the 24th. The mission called for
a group of 130 Delta, Rangers, drivers, and translators to be
inserted into the Iranian desert by a support force of fifty pilots
and air crewmen. Six C-130 Hercules transports were to lift the
men, their equipment, and helicopter aviation fuel from the
Egyptian air base at Qena to the island airfield of Masirah off the
coast of Oman for a refueling stop... Read more about the 1st
Ranger Bn's role in the operation to liberate our embassy staff and
citizens being held hostage in
Teheran......................................... From both Ranger
Battalions, 600 Rangers would land or drop, depending on the
conditions encountered at the airfield on Salines. 1st Battalion,
in addition to securing the airfield and True Blue, would also
reinforce the sixty Special Operations soldiers in the St. George
area of operations with fifty to sixty Rangers while the 2nd
Battalion would attack the PRA base at Calivigny. H-Hour was set
for 0200 on 25 October though this would be changed the very next
day to 0500 on 25 October... Learn more about Operation Urgent
Fury, the 'Invasion of
Grenada'............................................ President
George Bush authorized the invasion of Panama by U.S. forces
shortly after midnight on 20 December 1989 in an effort to capture
General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian dictator, and bring
him back to the U.S. to face drug-smuggling charges. Among a vast
number of other missions to be conducted throughout Panama on the
morning of the invasion, OPLAN 90-2 directed "Task Force Red," the
75th Ranger Regiment, to conduct an airborne assault on the Omar
Torrijos International Airport and Tocumen Military Airfield
complex with the 1st Ranger Battalion and C Company of the 3rd
Ranger Battalion...designated as Task Force
Red-Tango...simultaneously with a jump by the remainder of the
regiment against the Rio Hato base camp...designated as Task Force
Red-Romeo. Learn more about Operation Just Cause and the Ranger's
role in it........................................... On 2 August
1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait in the Persian Gulf. The "liberation of
Kuwait" began at 1840 EST on 16 January 1991. Following
thirty-seven days of intense, high-tech air bombardment, Desert
Saber, as the ground phase was termed, was launched on 23 February.
In support of this operation, B Company and 1st Platoon of A
Company...with a section from their weapons platoon...deployed from
the 1st Ranger Battalion on 12 February 1991 to conduct pinpoint
raids and quick reaction force missions behind enemy lines,
searching for SCUD, surface-to-surface, missile sites, destroying
communications sites, and submitting reports on enemy troop
movements. The team redeployed to their home station on 6 April
1991.......................................... The U.S. deployed
Task Force Ranger, a 450-man force composed of approximately sixty
men from the one-hundred-and-fifty-man Squadron C of 1st Special
Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; B Company (Reinforced), 3rd
Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment from; and support
helicopters from the Army's 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations
Aviation Regiment (SOAR)...the world's finest night fliers known as
the "Night Stalkers." The Mission: Capture and Arrest Warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid to aid in the restoration of order to the
country of Somalia, and to determine his role in the slaughter of
24 Pakistani peacekeepers. To read more about the Rangers
deployment to Mogadishu, Somalia and the intense 18 hour firefight,
called by many military experts, the "most intense and prolonged
firefight involving American forces since the Vietnam War", with
the irregular fighters belonging to Aideed's clan, click
here....................................... Among the many missions
Rangers have thus far participated in during Operation Enduring
Freedom was a small bur fierce combat action to recover a US Navy
SEAL and capture a hill known as Takur Ghar. Read the US DOD's
Executive Summary of the Battle.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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