Travel Bug Dog Tag Traveling MAC

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Released:
Saturday, November 22, 2003
Origin:
Washington, United States
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In the hands of drewhome.

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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

Dropped Off 2/22/2010 Trea73 placed it in Lincoln TB & GC Resort South Australia, Australia - 20.89 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/16/2010 Trea73 retrieved it from Lake less visited South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

Swapped a coin for this to enable us to have a closer look and move it on again. What a great item with great photos and story don't think we have ever seen one with so many kilometres up on it.
Dropped Off 1/2/2010 mobdx placed it in Lake less visited South Australia, Australia - 132.58 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 12/30/2009 mobdx retrieved it from Wee Wee Wee South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

picked up MAC will take it north.

Dropped Off 11/28/2009 Psalm 118:24 placed it in Wee Wee Wee South Australia, Australia - 19.74 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/4/2009 Psalm 118:24 retrieved it from Get Ready for Kadina South Australia, Australia   Visit Log

Cool TB!!

Dropped Off 10/8/2009 goingtheredoingthat placed it in Get Ready for Kadina South Australia, Australia - 686.77 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/8/2009 goingtheredoingthat retrieved it from HERITAGE WALKING Tasmania, Australia   Visit Log

Retrieved this from a seaside cache in Tasmania, the island state south of the Australian mainland.
Dropped Off 10/8/2009 goingtheredoingthat placed it in HERITAGE WALKING Tasmania, Australia - 578.02 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/8/2009 goingtheredoingthat grabbed it   Visit Log

Wasn't logged into the cache I retrieved it from, so I'm grabbing it, placing it in the cache, then retrieving it.
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