Duty days
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Owner:
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wilsonjw
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Released:
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Monday, September 6, 2004
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Origin:
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Virginia, United States
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This travel bug tag and brass clip hitchhiker want to travel from port to port. It has a special preference for Navy ports (e.g., Everett, San Diego, Mayport, Norfolk), but as they say, "any port in a storm". Please help it along, logging it in as it travels about.
Brass clips like these are used for several purposes in Navy ships. One of the formal usages is to "bend" (connect) signal flags onto halyards; when the signal has been formed, the flags are hoisted into the air so they can be read by other Sailors. One of the informal uses of these brass clips is to clip key rings onto a belt loop. Because ships have many spaces that are locked with keyed locks, people responsible for those spaces need to have ready access to the keys. Keeping all of those keys handy, without having them all stuffed in your pockets, meant keeping a keyring clipped to a belt loop. I was a "snipe" (engineer) responsible for the propulsion plant, so had keys to all kinds of spaces, alleys, trunks, and so on, so needed to carry a lot of keys. I kept a brass clip like this attached to my uniform for several years while I was on a ship. To commemorate those days, I'm launching "Duty days".
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Thänøs discovered it
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Discovered accidentally, mistyping the code of another trackable!
Greetings from Greece 🇬🇷
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Hughling discovered it
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musthavemuzk posted a note for it
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i was a deckhand and i too remember the duty days.
in my navy stuff i have various items. leather sheaths, brass clips like this, brass rings, spikes and knives.
too bad this came up missing.
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Marked this as missing today. It was placed in my cache with a log date 5 months prior to when it was actually logged. I'm not sure what actually happened with this one, perhaps Kelsey's Team can better explain. Hopefully it shows up.
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ZSteve posted a note for it
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This was just placed into the Tee It Up cache with a November log date. The cache has been found many times since then without mention of a travel bug. I seriously doubt that this TB is in this cache.
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Kelsey's Team placed it in Tee It Up
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- 70.66 miles
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Kelsey's Team retrieved it from ASoUC: Grim Grotto
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Oregon
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Found this travel bug while dropping off a bug that had come this direction from the Southern Hemisphere (New Zealand) on a beautiful autumn day. Will try to get Duty Days off and running next weekend.
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geogecko99 placed it in ASoUC: Grim Grotto
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Oregon
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geogecko99 retrieved it from Trick or Treat ????
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Oregon
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Great idea fro a travel bug and thanks for the background info as well. I will move this bug along to a new cache ASAP.
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billdickey2k1 discovered it
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