The Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Center is home to many of the
Imagery Technicians who deploy with Canada’s troops. Some of their
work can be seen on the Combat Camera website
and you will have to search their online data base to obtain the
true coordinates of the cache. From the Photo Search page, enter
the word provided in either the Keyword or Caption search box.
(Note that searching the “Caption” is not the same as searching the
“Keyword”. Keywords are embedded in the image file. The caption is
the text on the web page where the photo appears). A search will
result in a page with a number of thumbnails. Find the photo that
matches the mini-image below and click on it to view a larger image
and to read the caption. The number you are looking for may be in
the caption that accompanies the photo or it may be in the image
itself. You may need to click on the image yet again to download it
and zoom in for close examination.
21 Jan 06 - I'm a little concerned about
how the first few finders are climbing a fence. Before someone gets
hurt, here's a safe access point: Bearing 197°, distance 380m from
the cache. Please, no fence jumping. The area across the fence from
the cache is patrolled by young, highly professional Military
Police, who are uniquely motivated to investigate any fence jumping
they happen to witness!
The history of
the Imagery Technician trade is a rich one, its roots probably
go right back to war artists that predate photographic
technology. The trade remains affiliated with the Air Force,
due mainly to the extensive early use of aerial photography,
in spite of the fact that the greatest user of its product is
the Intelligence Branch, a part of Land Forces (Army).
Changing technology continues to shape the trade and it’s
skill set, namely digital photography and satellites as both a
medium of transmission and of imagery gathering. In recent job
analysis the Imagery Technician has been grouped with
Geomatics Technicians (map makers) and Meteorological
Technicians (weathermen), along with Intelligence, under the
broad label of “Geospatial Intelligence”. This is a grouping
of skills and knowledge not unknown to the average Geocacher,
who uses satellite technology, maps, perhaps satellite imagery
from GoogleEarth, sometimes (but not always) checks the
weather, reads intelligence reports (posts) and examines
imagery to plan their missions. They also gather imagery of
their mission execution, posting photos as absolute proof of a
find, in keeping with the CFJIC motto: “E VISIS VERITAS”, “In
images, truth”.
N 45° AB.CDE W 075° FG.HIJ
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A - Keyword: DISSANAYAKE. The first digit of the date
the disaster occurred which Corporal Dissanayake and his team are
responding to. |
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B - Caption: PADRE. The digital root of the number of
soldiers listed as included as part of the Provincial
Reconstruction Team. |
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C- Caption: WOODFIELD. The last digit of Private
Woodfield’s age. |
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D - Go to the posted coordinates. In one of the doorways
of one of the nearby buildings, you will see the welcome sign for
“CFJIC A Squadron”. The building identifier, in huge black
characters on the side of the building, is “M-XX” What is the
digital root of the numerical part of the building
identifier?. |
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E - Keyword: NAVY and Caption: GUN. How many meters wide
is the chasm which the Canadian Naval Gun Run Team must
cross? |
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F - Keyword: UAV. How many red maple leaves are visible
on the aircraft? |
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G - Caption: ANTONOV. What is the digital root of the
weight of the pallet Captain Malovin is securing? |
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H - Keyword: ATHENA. Three digits appear before Corporal
Parson’s name on the barrack box in his left hand. What is the
middle digit? |
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I -Keyword: NIJMEGEN. What is the digital root of the
length in kilometers of the Nijmegen March? |
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J - Caption: CARLETON. How many letters in the name of
the Operation that Corporal Paul is a part of? |
The cache contains some dollar store items related to
photographs, light and optics. And a moose. There’s a business card
sized “First to Find” trophy in the log book.
Contact me if you have any problems. And just to see how many
people read the entire cache page, I'm going place the solution
here while the Comabat Camera website is quote down for translation
issues unquote. Twenty-seven,four five nine, thirty-eight, zero
seven seven.