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<p>[QUOTE="andy21us, post: 634477, member: 2452"]That is very good Schatzy, you are one of the first that has gotten the history of the challenge coins right. And I am very impress, not a lot of people know the true history of these coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure how the other services award their coins but the Air Force had a tradition when I joined that you had to earn the coins, much like you described in the posting, but today it seem like they hand them out at a whim, and as you also stated you can go online and buy them which I feel it takes away for that tradition.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my 29 years in the Air Force I have been awarded 4 Challenge Coins. 3 of them I recieved for being deployed to the operations theaters of: Operation Joint Endeavor and Deny Flight in Iraq, Operation Shining Hope for the Kosovo Relief, and Operation Noble Eagle/Enduring Freedom for everthing after 9/11.</p><p><br /></p><p>But my Prize Challenge Coins is my Pararescue Coin which was awarded to me after my frist rescue operation in Guyana.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="andy21us, post: 634477, member: 2452"]That is very good Schatzy, you are one of the first that has gotten the history of the challenge coins right. And I am very impress, not a lot of people know the true history of these coins. I'm not sure how the other services award their coins but the Air Force had a tradition when I joined that you had to earn the coins, much like you described in the posting, but today it seem like they hand them out at a whim, and as you also stated you can go online and buy them which I feel it takes away for that tradition. In my 29 years in the Air Force I have been awarded 4 Challenge Coins. 3 of them I recieved for being deployed to the operations theaters of: Operation Joint Endeavor and Deny Flight in Iraq, Operation Shining Hope for the Kosovo Relief, and Operation Noble Eagle/Enduring Freedom for everthing after 9/11. But my Prize Challenge Coins is my Pararescue Coin which was awarded to me after my frist rescue operation in Guyana.[/QUOTE]
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