Kevin was one of three logistics leaders for a 55-person squad, a role spanning travel, beds, food and water, safety, borders, visas and rapid changes across the route.
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The World Race, 2013–14
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At training camp near Atlanta, three logistics trainees had one hour to feed a 55-person squad during a deliberately chaotic market simulation—and finished with everyone safe and fed, plus money remaining.
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For the Eswatini–Lesotho–Johannesburg–Cape Town arc, the most failure-prone logistics are not the trunk flights: they are rental-country permissions, rural border closing times, when-full minibuses, weather-dependent mountain roads, and cableway or ferry closures. These should be first-class trip-plan fields.
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The original support target for Kevin's 11-month route was $15,500—framed in 2013 as about $46 per day or $322 per week for training, international travel, lodging and food.