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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2774788, member: 19463&quot;]If you can&#039;t still remember your service number.....</p><p><br /></p><p>As I recall, not every C-Rations box included a P38 so you had to share or carry one you saved from earlier.&nbsp; There was a kid in Basic Training who wore one on his neck chain and had to get treated from an injury to his chest.&nbsp; Low crawling and can openers don&#039;t mix.&nbsp; We had been told not to wear them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Trying to make this into a coin related post takes more creativity than most.&nbsp; Trivia:&nbsp; What is special about the number 38 in Roman coins?</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=136606" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=136606" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=136606</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/834301.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>To the best of my knowedge, 38 is the only example on a coin of a Roman numeral expressed by a double subtractive.&nbsp; We see TR POT XXXIIX or &#039;two less than forty&#039;.&nbsp; I deeply regret the fact that they used TR POT rather than TR P since that would have given the legend P38 allowing me to claim that this reverse is not a rudder on a globe but the original can opener laid on top of a Roman can lid.&nbsp; Perhaps you of a certain age remember a story in the 60&#039;s that the C-rations were left over from a previous war.&nbsp; You probably figured they meant Korea but what we have here is evidence they meant Actium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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