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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Honolulu Dick, post: 922813, member: 24745&quot;]Another good Clinker posting ..... they [all of them] add a measure of lightheartedness that spices-up subjects that otherwise may not appear captivating.&nbsp; Good on Clinker!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>About Unit and/or Challenge Coins ..... most &quot;lifers&quot; collect them.&nbsp; Some collect only those that represent units they have served in.&nbsp; Some strive to collect as many unit samples as they can get their hands on.&nbsp; Others have designed their own coin and give them out as rewards and/or as tokens of appreciation for commendable service.&nbsp; They are a source of deeply-felt pride when received this way ..... it&#039;s personal and solidly real, and at a meaningful, eyeball-to-eyeball level.&nbsp; Mutual respect exchanged between men of patriotic honor.</p><p><br /></p><p>After duty hours, when your group gathers a in a favorite brew hall and shares pitchers of freshly drawn drafts, you challenge others by plunking your Challenge Coin on the table.&nbsp; If and/or when they can&#039;t respond with their coin, they are REQUIRE to pay for the round of newly delivered pitchers.&nbsp; The tempo increases when lifelong buddies assigned to other units are present and an array of different unit coins are tabled.&nbsp; The No-No rule ..... if you are stupid enough to drop your coin or cause another coin to fall from the table, you pay for the next round.&nbsp; The disgraced coin becomes the property of the house and is displayed in a case behind the bar, known as the Hall of Shame.&nbsp; Believe me ..... you don&#039;t want your name associated with having been the one responsible for disgracing your unit.&nbsp; Such peer-pressure is unbearable.</p><p><br /></p><p>We Grunts all returned from &quot;the Nam&quot; underweight.&nbsp; I arrived weighing 175 [two and a half years in Germany eating hearty black bread, cheese, sausage and drinking good German beer] and returned home weighing 128.&nbsp; Those &quot;happy hour&quot; evenings of pigging-out on pizza [weight gaining calories] and downing pitchers of good brew, with brother warriors you could trust to cover your backside, are among my most treasured.</p><p><br /></p><p>The asking for the RR coin is about average for most unit and/or challenge coins.&nbsp; Some are a dollar less, while some are a couple of dollars more.&nbsp; Those showing several colors are usually the most expensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the fun read, Clinker.&nbsp; The topic awakened many fond memories, making the sun shine just a bit brighter than usual.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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