Geocaching in the News paper.

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By Joshua Winata
Killeen Daily Herald

There were only two days until the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division was scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan on June 26, but instead of using his lunch break to make preparations, Staff Sgt. Brian Heitman was out looking for hidden treasure.

Armed with a hand-held Global Positioning System device on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Heitman navigated his family's Honda Odyssey van up Lutheran Church Road, a dusty white trail leading north out of Copperas Cove, following a set of coordinates. His target: two new geocaches placed the day before.

Heitman is one of a community of treasure seekers engaged in a worldwide adventure game known as geocaching. Around the world, right under people's noses, are thousands of hidden "geocaches," usually a simple camouflaged canister or box containing a log and several trinkets. The object is to find as many as possible. To discover where these coveted containers are hidden, participants look online at Geocaching.com or other Web sites to find coordinates and clues that lead them into everyday adventures, often right in their own towns.