Travel Bug Dog Tag Traveling MAC

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Released:
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Origin:
Washington, United States
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The goal for this bug is to move, and move constantly.

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For years, the Military Airlift Command, better known as MAC, moved people and equipment to practically every country on the earth. Today, it's been renamed Air Mobility Command, but the job is the same. This bug is in honor of all the crew dogs out there, past, present, and future that will get up at ungodly hours, eat greasy burgers for breakfast, and fly around the world in an aluminum tube.



As for me, I logged over 5600 hours in the fabulous Lockheed C-141B Starlifter. I’ve visited more countries than I can list, and a couple I can’t even tell you about. I was a “Fixed Wing Performance Flight Engineer”, the guy that sits sideways behind the co-pilot. My job was to preflight the airplane, compute take-off data (will we run out of runway before rotation?), monitor the aircraft hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical, fuel, engines, LOX, pressurization, and air conditioning systems in flight, compute landing data (will we roll off the end of the runway before we can stop?), post-flight inspection, bed-down of the aircraft as well as any minor repairs that we felt capable of doing. Additionally, we had to respond effectively to any in-flight emergencies that may occur. I crewed the Starlifter for over 17 years until they were retired. Today there are very few C-141Bs still flying, and only a handful of C-141Cs. Most are sitting in the desert waiting to be cut up for scrap.




Good luck and Godspeed!

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Tracking History (35094.5mi) View Map

Visited 9/5/2010 firesafe took it to The Cache in the Hat South Australia, Australia - 5.97 miles  Visit Log
Visited 9/5/2010 firesafe took it to Spring Camp Fire Dinner South Australia, Australia - 153.96 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/23/2010 firesafe retrieved it from Field Days South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

Will keep it moving ...
Dropped Off 7/25/2010 5grains placed it in Field Days South Australia, Australia - 78.98 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/18/2010 5grains retrieved it from Weir Here! South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

thought that this one had spent long enough here so will move it on again
Dropped Off 6/26/2010 ThisMechaniCan placed it in Weir Here! South Australia, Australia - 76.52 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/1/2010 ThisMechaniCan retrieved it from 10 Years! Port Lincoln, Australia South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

It's moving!!
Dropped Off 5/1/2010 ThisMechaniCan placed it in 10 Years! Port Lincoln, Australia South Australia, Australia - 1.29 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/5/2010 ThisMechaniCan retrieved it from Lincoln TB & GC Resort South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

Will take this one inland to a dryer climate. Starting to develop mildew from all the moisture it's been hanging around in.
Discovered It 2/22/2010 Muffy and Co discovered it   Visit Log

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