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wulfftruble

September 24, 2015 20:45

I found this on Ebay , and it was listed as a challenge coin. It looks like a bottle opener to me. Is this something Benchmade had made?

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jimr

September 24, 2015 21:48
That is very cool! Was looking at the coins for the respective services and couldn't for the life of me figure out why Department of Homeland Security was on there and not the United States Coast Guard. Then it hit me, when everything was reorganized after 9:11 Coast Guard was placed under the operational control of Homeland Security, if I'm not mistaken. Nice find!
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jonearlt

September 24, 2015 21:56
I think I saw one of these posted on Facebook
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wulfftruble

September 24, 2015 22:02
Lol
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jraysp

September 25, 2015 16:08
Looks like its a bottle opener to me.
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neuro

September 26, 2015 00:58
Perhaps it's the physical alternative to Viagra.
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82ndparatrooper

September 27, 2015 01:55
Challenge coins are usually attaboys for doing a good job or accomplishing something. During my Army days when we had military functions that involved copious amounts of alcoholic beverages. Soldiers would present a challenge coin with the rank of the individual who presented the coin. The person with the higher coin would win the challenge and the other soldier would have to buy the next round of drinks. Now days people just buy them for keepsakes.

This coin was presented to me by Major General Charles H. Swannack Jr. 82nd Airborne Div. Commanding General, for escorting him in and out of Fallujah Iraq as we received mortar and small arms fire from insurgents.
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wulfftruble

September 27, 2015 02:01
Wonder if it was made by Benchmade.
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82ndparatrooper

September 27, 2015 02:31
I think it might have been. I've got this coin from a Rep. of Anheuser-Busch in Iraq. Lot of companies do these things to honor the troops.
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bigwill857

September 27, 2015 17:49
quote:

Originally posted by 82nd Paratrooper:
I think it might have been. I've got this coin from a Rep. of Anheuser-Busch in Iraq. Lot of companies do these things to honor the troops.

Man makes you want a beer even more. I was 173rd. Airborne.
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82ndparatrooper

September 27, 2015 20:02
The Herd. My brother was in the 173rd. He got out right before Afghanistan. I think he deployed to Bosnia though. Hella pissed he didn't get that mustard stain for Iraq!
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