That's good stuff. I can't say that I ran into many from 101st, I was in Kirkuk for the majority of my deployment...guarding a government building, hotel with US Civilians and various missions throughout the city.
Here is my only one, but received from a man who worked with training security agents. I do not know why it is not posting up, here is the link http://www.numissociety.com/attachment.php?attachment.php?attachmentid=22821&d=1361689618
Ok so it's time to for me to post some more challenge coins. First one up is one from the Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here at Osan. I'm not part of that unit but I fix their jets so thought I'd have a coin. The center of this coin actually spins around - I think it's both neat and silly. I'm working on getting some coins made for my shop which led me to contact Northwest Territorial Mint, who were kind enough to send me some samples of their coins. As usual, please excuse the poor pictures. I'm limited to a 30 watt lamp and my cell phone.
Ok CoinTalk, ready yourselves for another addition! This one is awesome because this is my career field in the Air Force. I'm always searching for a Fuels Systems coin and now I have one! Pics are from the seller, I edited them. I would like to explain a few things about the coin: the obverse shows a respirator, a speed handle, and a sealant injection gun. These are all common tools of our trade. JP-8 is a type of jet fuel and as we spend hours inside of fuel tanks...well sometimes people get a little light headed. The drip the obverse is referring to is a fuel leak. The reverse of the coin shows a sign we post outside of the open tank area which attempts to keep people from entering. Next up is an old version of our squadron's coin and I just wanted to have it because 1) it's an older version and 2) I don't have one of the new ones yet. Finally, I feel like posting this here. It's not a coin, but I found this patch that has the same design as the coin I got from technical school so I wanted to add it to the collection. I believe I posted the original coin a few pages back.
Have to say great stuff, all of them. back when the navy just switched from sail to power and I was in. I don't know if they had them or not. I know they were never mentioned by any body, not that I had all that many friendly officers. Still between the novelty ones that are available, and the number of "mints" that are making them. Along with the fact that it appears that if your credit card is good you bought them. It is one more interesting item to collect for exonumist to hunt for. Now that I know more about them will have to keep a better eye on the junk bins at garage sales. All great stuff. And for all those that have served THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE!
Ok, this one has been posted...but it's my current squadron's coin. Way back at post two in this thread Green said he didn't have so I had to change that! Here's mine:
I never thought I would see a posting for Military Challenge Coins but now that there are some here guess what I am doing tomorrow. I will take some photos of mine and post em up for your comments. I cant wait to get into my office to do this so excited now.
15 years and still going strong in the Army I have a few you might like to see. I used to have The Joint Chief of Staff Challenge Coin but it was stollen in Iraq when I was their in 07-09 but I have a few other nice ones. All the ones I will post have all been earned in the military.
Yeah it was very upsetting at first but obviously they needed it more than I did so its ok. I have plenty to play with and win beers off of fellow troops with. Air Force you like it? I served with a few Air Force guys overseas as well as other branch personnel seems like we all like doing what we do. I spent 10 years as an artillery man and now five years as an Engineer. I am a readiness NCO in the Active National Guard here in California having a blast. Looking forward to retiring in 5 more years.
Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, huh? I love being in the Air Force - I like my job (aircraft mechanic), go cool places, met a lot and worked with a ton of great people. It's does suck sometimes...guess my biggest complaint right now would be I'm at Osan and the family is Stateside. Missing the wife and son but mid-tour is in 10 days! Active National Guard has got to be great, right? In the Air Force the guard is way more laid back.
As promised here is my collection of Challenge coins earned in the Army and a brief discription of why it was earned. I recieved this one for my deployment to Guantanamo Bay Cuba in 04-05 I recieved this one from my Battalion in Iraq for my deployment on 07-09 This was my Battery coin. The image on the front is a painting I did at our Comand Post in LSA Anaconda Iraq OIF VII-IX This coin was presented to me in Iraq by our Adjutant General, Major General Wade. This coin I recieved from my Unit which deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. I was left back with the unit to be the Rear Detachment Non-Commissioned Officer in charge and they brought this back with them to present it to me. I Recieved this after being activated on September 11th 2001. I was sent to assit a mobilizing unit. A horrible day that was. I recieved this from the National Guard for Mobilizing in support of the War on Terror. I recieved this on back in 2001 after the attack on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon and the downed plane that was aimed at the White House. I was activated to perform as a security force at one of our military installations where I severed in the capacity for a year before being called back to my unit for overseas mobilization.
For my next set of coins I recieved these for performing as an Honor Guard and Color Guard for the California Army National Guard Veterans Honor Program. This program performs in the same capacity as the Old Guard in Arlington. I was sent to a training course in Arkansas to be trained by the Old Guard and performed Military Honors in California for Approximatly 8 years. I will not talk about these coins because it is very hard to do so. Each one was recieved performing a service for a Service Member killed in action while in support of the War on Terror.
Finally I recieved these from verious locations not as an award. This one I bought. I normally do not buy challenge coins but this one was cool as heck and I trained with this task force for my mobilizations so I bought one for my collection. This one was a gift from my USAA Bank.
Granted they will mean more if you are given them, but since you aren't claim anything other then buying the ones you did It all good you have a great collection. Back when I was in they didn't have anything like these. And thank you for your service.!
Nice collection! Thanks for sharing them! Something I really like about challenge coins are the memories they bring back from different bases, TDYs, deployments, etc. I hope my son gets evenly mildly interested in coins so that when he's older I'll show him the coins and tell him what his old man was up to.
