Quality report- challenge coins

[DeusxMac]

FWIW, such coins are not universally used throughout the military.
They seem to generate more interest and carry more mystique outside the military.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

>> Challenge coins are also popular in PDs and SOs.

Police Departments and... Significant Others?

[Lux Interior]

hal wrote:
[quote=MrNoBody]
Give one of these to a Navy Seal and you'll drink for free all night!
http://www.seawolf.org/mdse/coinm.jpg

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

How does one of these translate into free drinks in reality.
You cross your arms and say "Valar Morghulis!"

[$tevie]

I can't imagine being proud of having a challenge coin that is in fact a beer opener. Everything nice ends up ruined on the internet.

[RAMd®d]

Everything nice ends up ruined on the internet.

Agreed.

[rjmacs]

ztirffritz wrote:
[quote=testcase]
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.
From that link:

Avery Trufelman wrote:

When these coins get given out, they are a physical reminder of the fact that the military is not some faceless monolithic structure. The coins show that the military is an organization made of human beings.

These statements confused me, because the purpose of a collective symbol like this is to minimize individual differences and emphasize a shared identity. This is something the military does excellently, because unit cohesion depends on prioritizing the group over the individual (including the self). What makes the military most effective is that, when the pressure is on, is can become a "faceless monolithic structure," focused on the objective and unconcerned with the distinctions between its members.

[DeusxMac]

rjmacs wrote:

From that link:

[quote=Avery Trufelman]

When these coins get given out, they are a physical reminder of the fact that the military is not some faceless monolithic structure. The coins show that the military is an organization made of human beings.

These statements confused me, because the purpose of a collective symbol like this is to minimize individual differences and emphasize a shared identity. This is something the military does excellently, because unit cohesion depends on prioritizing the group over the individual (including the self). What makes the military most effective is that, when the pressure is on, is can become a "faceless monolithic structure," focused on the objective and unconcerned with the distinctions between its members.
This Avery Trufelman??

"Avery Trufelman thought she wanted to be an industrial designer, but decided she’d rather make audio stories about design. She is a fierce defender of Millennial Pink (though her favorite color is Baker-Miller Pink), and her favorite font is the official typeface of Sweden, Sweden Sans."

Hardly seems an authority on things military.


p.s. Like the time travel copyright on her sight "© 2023 by JAMES JONES. All rights reserved."