My first trip outside the “wire” leaving Camp Arifjan was to travel to Camp Buehring which is also in Kuwait. I have been to the camp once before in the fall of 2003. Back then it was called Camp Udari and I participated in training in close quarters marksmanship and convoy operations. This trip was to be simple trip to sign for new body armor. I had the geocaches in the camp loaded onto the Garmin and hoped to get a find or two. Our time was tight and after obtaining the body armor, we drove near the DFAC for lunch. I attempted to grab One Degree of Separation and unable to find it. After lunch we boarded the bus to head back to Arifjan, which was about 1:30 in the afternoon. The guards at the gate would not permit us to leave without an escort. We then drove near the PX and waited several hours to finally leave the camp. During that time, I introduced another soldier to the sport of geocaching finding diecast64 and PT- Good for you, good for me. Having the new geocacher was helpful on the last cache since he is a few inches taller than me.
We finally managed to leave the camp near dusk and later arrived at Camp Arifjan about 9:30 pm. I have been caching for a little over 5 years and have ran across many light pole, guardrail and storm drain caches. But in a the warzone, barrier caches are popular.
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