GC6F84X Traditional Cache GUARDIANS
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: Nickygeo @ | Hide Date: 04/09/2016 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 18.725 W103° 49.537 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  Scenic view  Available at all times  Available during winter  Motorcycles  Stealth required  Park and Grab  Tourist Friendly 

Quick park & grab with room for trackables and whatnot. Sarting with 3 trackables, please try not to leave it empty. This is a tribute to the guardians that perished on extortion 17. Good men from Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and elsewhere died that day. Including my good buddy SSG Patrick D. Hamburger... May they all rest in peace.


On 6 August 2011, a U.S. Boeing CH-47 Chinook military helicopter was shot down while transporting a quick reaction force attempting to reinforce an engaged unit of Army Rangers in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. The resulting crash killed all 38 people on board—25 American special operations personnel, five United States Army National Guard and Army Reserve crewmen, seven Afghan commandos, and one Afghan interpreter—as well as a U.S. military working dog. It is considered the worst loss of American lives in a single incident in the Afghanistan campaign.

 

 

 

The deaths included: 15 United States Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group's Gold Squadron "Team 6" 7 Afghan National Army Commandos, part of Afghan National Army 5 U.S. Naval Special Warfare support personnel, two EOD technicians, one MWD Handler, one Cryptologic technician and one Information systems technician. 3 U.S. Army Reserve personnel from the 7th Battalion, 158th Aviation Regiment 2 U.S. Navy SEALs from a west coast based SEAL team. 2 U.S. Army personnel from the 2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment, part of Colorado Army National Guard[1][2][32] 2 U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron 1 U.S. Air Force Combat Controller from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron 1 Afghan civilian interpreter 1 U.S. Military Working Dog
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Ground level...magnetic!.... Hint is in the name!!!

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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 07/03/2019 By LadyGunslinger
It was really great to see a cache this size here. It was all in great shape, too! Gets a fave from me!

Found it 06/29/2019 By mcmwest


Caching in the Agate area today with my partner mcmm1. Signing logs as mcm or team mcm . Thanks to the catchers who placed these here and those who have helped keep them up.

Found it 06/29/2019 By mcmm1
Tftc

Found it 06/02/2019 By Grand High Pobah
18:32. Found it fairly easily. TFTC. TNLNSL.

Found it 06/02/2019 By renruts
Daddy renruts had a phone call so we pulled off so he could talk. Nice memorial. I remember. TFTC

Found it 09/30/2018 By Spooty
Found it at 1329.
This deserved its 2.5-star Difficulty rating, in my book. I spent several minutes looking around, then finally caved and looked at the hint, then it just took me a few seconds to spot the cache container. It's a good hide; I'm not sure I've ever seen one like this.
I was hardly alone during my brief stop there. There was one muggle driving past me about every minute!
TNLNSL (but I did discover a trackable there). TFTC!

Found it 09/19/2018 By Fork L Man
left tb nice hide TFTC/bruce

Found it 08/16/2018 By DaSamples
Colo to GA tftc

Found it 08/05/2018 By mobysmom
Found it. Nice easy.cache.

Found it 07/21/2018 By CShare
Found this with JSQuack while driving I70 on the way to Mingo. TFTC