Quality report- challenge coins

[msglee]

I have a few dozen of the military challenge coins. I keep them as a reminder of places and people. They bring back a lot of great memories.

Yes... I also have a love me wall.

[MrNoBody]

Give one of these to a Navy Seal and you'll drink for free all night!


Seawolves, or as Seals use to call them "They're crazy muthf****rs!"

[ztirffritz]

testcase wrote:
I've never been able to figure out the purpose of "challenge coins" other the than to make money for the person selling them. :dunno:

See the link that I shared.

[hal]

MrNoBody wrote:
Give one of these to a Navy Seal and you'll drink for free all night!


Seawolves, or as Seals use to call them "They're crazy muthf****rs!"

I have to assume that showing one of these and saying, 'so they drinks are on you all night - right?' is unacceptable - yes? How does one of these translate into free drinks in reality. (not that I'm going to get one and try it - no, I wouldn't do that :-)

[Acer]

The free-drinks ones are not the 98¢ models from China, FYI.

[cbelt3]

Acer wrote:
The free-drinks ones are not the 98¢ models from China, FYI.

Yeah... show up in a military bar with some stolen valor BS.... it won't end well.

I did not serve. All I can tell is the story about defense engineering and being caught in the middle of a revolution / firefight, hiding in a bathtub scared out of my mind and trying not to pee my pants. I'll never claim to be something I'm not.

Reading Ian Fleming books does not make you an MI-6 agent.

[btfc]

So when is the MRF challenge coin coming out?

[TLB]

In my day they were rather rare. Back then, you carried your unit coin as means of esprit de corps. If you were challenged by someone in the unit and didn't have your coin, you bought drinks for everyone present. Unit coins were presented as a memento to honored guests and gifted as a sign of respect, often for helping the unit in question. If you were a noncombatant and received one from a combat unit it was a really big deal and the coin was often a prized possession. Today it seems every military unit has one.

[RAMd®d]

In the link, one of the 'drinking' applications wasn't mentioned, or I didn't see it –

A group of people (or just another) will be at a watering hole, and one will produce his coin. Everybody has to produce a coin or the one/ones without, buy.

But if everybody has one, then the guy/gal with the lowest ranking coin had to buy. Sometimes it's one's rank, some times it's their unit or command.

They may throw don't their unit or command coin, and somebody else throws down a SecDef coin. SecDef trumps (apologies).

It can be used to see who's buying dinner, too.

Challenge coins are also popular in PDs and SOs.

[MrNoBody]

hal wrote:
... How does one of these translate into free drinks in reality. (not that I'm going to get one and try it - no, I wouldn't do that :-)

Seawolves HA(L)-3

Old HS friend was aircrew & UH-1 mechanic in HA(L)-3. Also one heck of
a motorcycle mechanic! He says those Navy chopper pilots never learned
the laws of physics and never said no to a mission.