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Prior to 2000, the U.S. military created and deployed satellites to produce accurate location information for military applications. Selective
availabilty restricted precise GPS data to the U.S. government. On May 2, 2000, the government "flipped the switch" and made accurate GPS
available to all. Geocachers proudly call this Blue Switch Day.
Once GPS became available to the public, the first geocache didn't take long to appear! Only one day later, a cache was hidden on May 3 2000
by Dave Ulmer of Beavercreek, Oregon. Within three days, it had been found twice. It was a black plastic bucket that was partially buried and
contained software, books, money, a can of beans and a slingshot.😀
Today, I wasn't looking for anything so fancy to claim the cache. The recently published, New Job / New Cache trad was placed on the A127
and it became my qualifying cache.😀
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