For All You Jar Heads

God Bless you for your service and behold the latest offering from the mints' 2.5 oz 'Armed Forces Silver Medal' series, which timely arrived at my doorstep earlier this afternoon.




Thanx for lookin'.

 

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A lot of detail on that beauty. Nice buy

 

I wish the every marine rifleman wasnt on it, but other than that theyve done an amazing job with this series so far

 

If only we could them to stop eating crayons...

 

As least I can tell they are Howitzers. Not a bad looking coin.

 

84% sold already according to Coin World.

 

Currently listed as 'unavailable' on the mint web site.........

 

Not too surprising. It's a nice looking medal and it's the Marines.

 

It sold out in 24 hours. There were less than a thousand left after the first day and it took less than 5 minutes to finish the sell out when the HHL was lifted

 

I would like to have one. But do not buy anything from the mint anymore. Semper Fi 1964-1970 I may be able to acquire one later at a better price at our club. We only had M14A1 back then. Many that went to Vietnam got the M16s. The M14A1 from what I knew then, had more range than the M16. Sure we only had 20 rounds, and the M16 had more.

 

The 2.5 ounce ones have gone up in the after market, there are one ounce ones coming for all of them in the future that will be cheaper and with their unlimited mintages likely will have cheaper prices in the aftermarket

 

The jarheads weren't the only ones on the front lines....

 

Very nice coin! It is on my want list! Thanks for sharing!

 

Indeed they were not always, but many times they were the first ones in and the last ones out.

My family members who served, served as dog face Army .......I'm very proud of their achievements and services rendered. I also have a healthy and hearty respect for all of the service people who put their lives on the line each day, be they Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, Army or Marine. Each service contributes equally and no one is capable of doing the job alone.

That said...........can't the devil wait for the Army silver medal.

 

Very well said.

 

Never take nothing away from the Marines but many times including Iwo Jima the Seabees landed first and punched through.

 

I used the M14A1 the summer of ‘69, shot expert twice while qualifying. Sure, we only had 20 rounds, per magazine, but that meant we could reach out and “touch” someone from 500 yards out 20 times before reloading (which only took 2-3 seconds)…

Semper Fidelis.

 

Bought this for my stepson who is still a Marine, though he got his discharge many years ago.

 

"Once a Marine, always a Marine"

MSGT Paul Woyshner

 

My father served in 3 wars.. WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Navy in WWII, Army Korea and Vietnam. He was a corpsman in WWII Navy, I'm not sure what he did in Korea. I know he got hit. After Korea, he went to missile and radar electronics training at Ft Bliss Texas. He became a trainer behind the Crypto cage at Fort Gordon, GA. We moved around a bit after that. I was in college when I found out that he was in Vietnam. He was in charge of keeping the helos and fixed wing flying he was walking across a helo pad when mortars were falling and he got hit and medivaced to the army hospital in colorado. After that, he finally retired to Castroville, California.
My brother was in the Navy and was on a ship in a harbor or whatever it was, when his ship got hit and so did he.
I have a picture of my father, my brother and me, somewhere. I'll post it if I can find it. Oh yeah! I was lucky. After all my training... Basic at Fort Bragg,NC, AIT Fort Dix, NJ, Jump School at Fort Benning, GA, and then Fort Bragg again in the 82nd. I was serving as a runner for the Battalion HQ. I made a run to 4th Brigade HQ and then to division HQ. They found out that I could type, so I became a law clerk and court recorder. Over 300 courts-martials in 2 years. I got order to go to Vietnam, but became exempt because my father and my brother were already there. Lucky me.
Anyway, I bought the Air Force and Navy 2.5 silver oz medals when I found out that there would be 1 ounce medals later this year.