DUSTOFF8

From a furriner... Just thought I'd chime in on your game name. Taken from the DUSTOFF Assn web page: The Association derives its name, DUSTOFF, from the radio call sign given to the first aeromedical helicopter evacuation unit in Vietnam, the 57th Medical Detachment (Hel Amb), which arrived in-country in 1962. The 57th initially communicated internally on any vacant frequency it could find. In Saigon, the Navy Support Activity, which controlled all call words used in call signs in South Vietnam, allowed the 57th to adopt the callsign "DUSTOFF." This callsign epitomized the 57th's medical evacuation missions. Since the countryside was then dry and dusty, helicopter pickups in the fields often blew dust, dirt, blankets, and shelter halves all over the men on the ground. Throughout Vietnam all evacuation helicopters assumed the call sign "DUSTOFF" followed be a numerical designation (the exception being the air ambulances of the 1st Calvery Division which used the call sign Medevac) and no one ever attempted to change this during the remainder of the conflict. Though other call signs regularly changed, both ground and aviation units refused to refer to these evacuation helicopters by any other callsign. By adopting "DUSTOFF", in those early stages of the Vietnam war, the legend was born. The call sign "DUSTOFF," now synonymous with life-saving aeromedical evacuation, has taken on added meaning with the application of the Association's motto: Dedicated Unhesitating Service To Our Fighting Forces. The US Army still uses DUSTOFF callsigns for evac helos. Love your game. I'll plan to join after saving pennies for the "hop over the pond." Thanks, CRC

quote:Originally posted by Natureboy1376:As the owner of this TB I would place a note on the cache page, saying please get him moving if you visit this cache! NOSEEUMS--High Protien Low Calorie unpacked trail snacks!!!! See You In the Woods!!! Natureboy1376 OK Nature boy. Did you read the logs on the cache page and look at the map of where it is? It's in the MARIANA ISLAND CHAIN!

Perfect example of why not to place a cache while on vacation...

Just a note. There are a couple of DUSTOFF's in the system now. Some of us are just having fun with it, and others... I do honestly believe that it was done in the spirit of the game and my antics about helping bugs to Vermont is too in the spirit of helping a bug win the wrong way award. Lighten up... quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:I think the whole point of listing the bugs being held was to illustrate how Dustoff stands out like a sore thumb. All of the others are excusable... even if someone's been holding onto one or two bugs for three weeks, that is not nearly the same as driving all the way to Ohio, grabbing a bug that had made forward progress, and moving it backwards to a remote military base in the Adirondacks and then not even releasing it into another cache. Kidnapping and waylaying one or two bugs is funny. I myself diverted the Pace Car to a remote cache, because I wasn't hurting a "real" race participant, and I only held onto the bug for ONE DAY. ClayJar moved Oscar's Express backwards from Louisiana to north Georgia, which I found to be hysterically funny. Likewise, unintentional diversion or delay of bugs by someone who doesn't understand the race goal will also happen, as is the case for ANY bug with a specific goal. Intentionally waylaying ten racing bugs and then sitting on them for weeks is not funny, it's mean-spirited. While I do not have a bug in the race, I will do what I can to help along any of the victimized bugs as they pass through my caching territory, and I will follow the "Reverse Golden Rule" if I ever come across a bug owned by Dustoff: Do unto others as they have done unto you. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x .sdrawkcab dootsrednu tub sdrawrof devil si efiL

It does lend more credibility to know all of you have "been there." DUSTOFF is the callsign used by Army Medical Evacuation(MEDEVAC) helicopters in Vietnam and has stuck with us as a rememberance to our fallen heros. We use it proudly even today as a callsign so the troops know they are in good hands. Dedicated Unhesitating Service To Our Fighting Forces www.dustoff.org Myself: 236th DUSTOFF, Landstuhl, Germany ",Bosnia ",Kosovo 229th and USAAAD, Mountain DUSTOFF, FT Drum, NY Also: OH-58 pilot in Haiti(incl 8 days on CVN-69 USS D.D. Eisenhower). DUSTOFF! [This message was edited by DUSTOFF8 on May 10, 2003 at 11:18 AM.]

Better yet...how do you delete it??? DUSTOFF8 quote:Originally posted by Man In The Wild & family:Well I sure made a mess. At least my message finally posted--all four times I tried to post it. Now if only I knew why it didn't seem to work at first. I don't remember seeing any of them listed when I posted them, but there they are--all four! Oops. Oh well, I'm sure mikedx got my message.

Has anybody seen TOMAHAWK? On my way to Vermont for the weekend and want him to win the "wrong way" prize. Also looking forward to meeting Hand Shake. "Muhaahaahaa haa." Check out the rules page. In there somewhere was the list of prizes including the most miles travelled prize and the wrong way prize. Can't wait for next years Cannonball Run. Maybe mine will get to Egypt... quote:Originally posted by ict X ckr:Hey Dustoff8 - You are not going to get a lot of sympathy from me about the flack your crew has gotten. I don't believe any one has claimed you haven't played by the rules. I don't think there is a racer out there who didn't anticipate being hi-jacked, and truthfully it is part of the fun watching. Even being hi-jacked more than once is not something that is upsetting. I think the heat is coming from the fact that besides being willing to advance your pet 500 miles (cool for him), your crew has found it necessary to control around 30% of the racers, some like myself more than once (this is only possible at both ends of the race as they spread out in the middle). Migo was jacked for about a month and then not logged into another cache, he just showed up being retrieved yesterday more than likely by chance. Not logging a bug is pretty severe intervention, effectively taking it out of the race. With the advantages of having so many races in such close proximity it seem fair that more cachers get the chance to help or hinder at their whim and not left to a smaller group that evidently has the time to power cache. I have admitted you play fair even if nasty, the traveling cache was a good one hard to pin down – except for the logging issue. As for TOMAHAWK, I am wondering if there is a prize for being farthest in road miles from the finish. While a couple show farther away, it is hard to tell looking a maps, I think my bug is farther walking miles from the finish line (BTW I think that is hilarious). But it would be nice to see some progress, as the race is now a month and a half along and TOMAHAWK has yet to make a positive mile. I am aware you and your cohort are not the same, as for better looking - I will leave that up to someone else to judge. Also I just released another bug at an event here in Oz last weekend. Its name is Hand Shake and one of its goals is to meet you guys. So keep an eye out for it, it will take a while I am sure. Just to let you know I think this is all good fun. Don't step in that!!!!!

OK ictXckr, I think racers should be able to interfere also. But, Sir, have you read how much flack the DUSTOFF Crew has gotten for actively interfereing with the game? We have a local racer entered, but none of the DUSTOFFers have bugs entered ourselves. The rules allow us to help our local entries, so why would the gamers complain? The rules were posted before the entrants entered...DUSTOFF8 PS No, DUSTOFF21 is not me. He is looking across the desk at me, but I'm much better looking. quote:Originally posted by ict X ckr:Since next years race will be run by the NY group, it would be nice to come up with some rules/guidelines that allow racers to interfere with other racers and not disqualify themselves in the process. After all in the spirit of the race it should be do-able.