Happy Veterans Day

For all who served, thank you for your service. Post your military related coins. I'll start it off with the 5 star generals set:

 

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I don't have any military themed US coins so I will add a pog and a miitary challenge coin from one of my deployments:

 

As a VietNam vet, I am honored to say to my fellow returnees "Welcome Home".

 

Challenge Coin from my ship, the USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
(in case anyone is wondering, shown firing a missile from the forward missile deck)​

 

Oooo CMC coin, aren't you fancy?

 

As everyone knows, work hard and get the chiefs on your side...and you can get away with anything...like making your own “funny” version of the ship’s Plan Of The Day (using the official ship’s letterhead, because IT security hadn’t been invented yet.)

 

1968 RVN 20 dong. I brought one just like this back from Vietnam.

 

Hahaha. Nice one.
When I was an instructor at Surface Warfare Officer School, we had a hall dedicated to Admiral Arleigh Burke.
Here is a challenge coin from there:

Awful picture...

 

Picture is OK. I have sailed many times below that bridge, maybe never drove or rode over top of it.

 

I used to live right near it. It was framed by my living room window

 

Semper Fi

 

I served in the Navy in the 70's and my grandson is serving currently. Here is a challenge coin that he sent me recently.

 

I served at Yokota AB in Tokyo. Would love to see one from there. Nice coin from Kadena BTW.

 

I served on the USS Kittyhawk CVA-63 in Vietnam 1961-'64. To all veterans, thank you and God Bless!

 

I was a poor sap that got drafter in 1968 before the lottery. Took basic at Ft Bragg, AIT at Ft Dix, Jump School at Ft Benning and the rest of my 2 years in the 82nd. I lost all of my military stuff when I got my divorce. My Father was in WW II in Submarine, and my brother in the Navy on the coast of Vietnam. My military service paid for the birth of my first born and for 6 years of college.

 

I was stationed near Kadena back in '71-72.

 

Bless all those who have served or are serving our country, now, and a special memory for my father who served in World War II.

Joseph P. Machuga
314th Infantry, 79th Division
Combat Medic
Normandy Invasion, Purple Heart w/OLC, Bronze Star w/OLC, POW
Interred at Arlington National Cemetery

 

All the Way Jim!

 

1991 World War II commemorative half dollar



1991 World War II commemorative silver dollar



1991 Korean War commemorative silver dollar. The were some complaints about the odd ball 38th anniversary thing.

 

VN, no coins, just memories, some good, some bad, but made it home in one piece to be spit on in 1967.