Does your state have a State Defense Force? https://sgaus.org/ Ohio has its own Navy and very strict requirements for land-based volunteers....
History is everything. Those who know history are condemned to be surrounded by those who have forgotten it. Thanks for the link. I am sorry...
See, that's where my problem area begins. You did not earn them. I have an FBI coin that was given to me by a battle buddy from the FBI. (She had...
Are you a numismatist, researching and publishing the histories that give meaning to these unit challenge coins?
When the planes hit the towers, I did not volunteer. To me, it is complicated; and now I keep my mouth shut when my battle buddies violate...
Thank you for your service.
Thanks for the pics, Sar' Major! (I assume that that was you... Or were you the O-3?) Nice of you to do that. People are shocked when then find...
My father was wounded in Korea... patrolling the so-called "De-Militarized Zone" (actually the most militarized place on Earth). Thank you for...
And where did you serve? Secretary of the CIA? You were in Intelligence for the US Government? Wow, man, but of course you can neither confirm...
I get that. See my response above about our Museum at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. If you can research the unit and its history, you will be...
You don't get it. GTS: Google that Stuff...
Yeah, I hate that... for us we always have to say "Search and Recovery... It is too late for rescue..." And it is not my group. I am in HQ. I...
Nice catch! If you ever get in with a bunch of veterans at a bar, at least you will not be empty handed.
See my reply to Jwt708. I understand numismatics as a branch of history - numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of...
I have mixed feelings about this. To me, at worst, collecting these is stolen valor (here and here and here). In this case, you sound like the...
I earned these. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Read a history of challenge coins here:...
Whitman Publishing is the leading producer of products for coin collectors. This year, they released a new entry in the marketplace, their Search...
"Coin rot" (verdigris) is an affliction of copper coins, especially ancients and Early American. Once a single coin exhibits the symptoms, the...
On the subject of cleaning coins, I have very little experience. I have used "rubbing alcohol" (isopropanol) as a solvent. Soap and water are...
It is an old problem, that coin doctoring is, like alchemy, a secretive art. It is funny, though, that museums clean and restore paintings and no...
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