Recently, I volunteered to go on mission to visit a country that I have not been to since late 2003 and add another country to my geocaching profile, Iraq. On the way north, we stopped at Camp Buering and with some time on my hands, I managed a few finds. History on the Walls was an easy find very close to where we parked the bobtails and stayed two nights. I found that one just before midnight and found Cold Frappe' and a Hot Spot after midnight with a group from our convoy who wanted to obtain some coffee from Starbucks. The next afternoon, we began to head out and after picking up Class I supplies (Snacks, Gatorade, Ice), I picked up Camp Buehring TB Hostel a large ammo can very near the staging lanes that sets right under the noses of hundreds of muggles that pass by.
Our trip took us north to FOB Kalsu where there were no geocaches. FOB Kalsu did seem to have the best DFAC (Dining Facility) in theater. Leaving Kalsu, we arrvied at Camp Adder in Southern Iraq, the based used to be called Tallil. In 2003, I was based nearby at Camp Cedar II and visited Tallil Airbase on occasion. There I made my first geocache find in Iraq with ground flare #3 (incomming). It was an easy find that required climbing an old Iraqi bunker. I was in the area visiting the Organizational Maintenance Shop to replace a tire. The following day, after getting some direction of where the PX was located I picked up three more caches. Israel, which was interesting that it was located near ancient marshland. Mikaaiyl, a walk and grab nano on the way to the MWR and finally Transient Altoid Tin-Tallil which is located near the MWR.
The trip added a fourth country to my profile and recently had a patch made for myself "Combat Cacher".
