Need photo example for a challenge coin

[emshighway]

I am working on a design for a challenge coin. I would like to have the LGA Tower (old one) in the foreground with the city skyline with the WTC in the background. Does anyone have any photos like that so I can get the proper prospective?

Thanks.

[cancidas]

I am working on a design for a challenge coin. I would like to have the LGA Tower (old one) in the foreground with the city skyline with the WTC in the background. Does anyone have any photos like that so I can get the proper prospective?

Thanks.
are you working thursday? i have a design that might help. ill be in the office from 0530 till 1400.

[emshighway]

I am working on a design for a challenge coin. I would like to have the LGA Tower (old one) in the foreground with the city skyline with the WTC in the background. Does anyone have any photos like that so I can get the proper prospective?

Thanks.
are you working thursday? i have a design that might help. ill be in the office from 0530 till 1400.

Yea, I can swing by the terminal at 13:00.

[emshighway]

Gee, thanks for all the help :cry:

Matt, sorry I couldn't meet up today. I had a HQ person who wanted to be baby sat.

[USAF Pilot 07]

I'm not "artistically" gifted, so I can't help in that department, but when you get the coin made, let me know - I'd be interested in buying one...

[emshighway]

I have some schemes already designed. I use CorelDraw and have designed several patches and other items. If anyone runs into the SCPD Airport Operations Officers their patch is mine. Also in the city if you see a voluntary Ambulance (private hospital supplying 911 busses) with the participating logo on the doors that is mine.

Thanks Matt for the second eye.

[cancidas]

Thanks Matt for the second eye.
no worries, anytime.



Also in the city if you see a voluntary Ambulance (private hospital supplying 911 busses) with the participating logo on the doors that is mine.
do you mean this one:
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/ems.nyc/FDNY_EMS_911-240x150.png

[emshighway]

Thanks Matt for the second eye.
no worries, anytime.



Also in the city if you see a voluntary Ambulance (private hospital supplying 911 busses) with the participating logo on the doors that is mine.
do you mean this one:
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/ems.nyc/FDNY_EMS_911-240x150.png

Yep. LOL, this one is mine too.
http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/ems.nyc/ems.jpg

Here is the SCPD AOS
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/SCPDAOS2.jpg

[cancidas]

http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/ems.nyc/ems.jpg
very nice, i've got one of those...

[emshighway]

http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/ems.nyc/ems.jpg
very nice, i've got one of those...

Yea, stupid me I didn't copyright it but it is hard to copyright a variation of an agencies logo.

[PhilDernerJr]

What is a challenge coin? Is it like a unit coin that one would see in the military? I just got a new one the other day from a good friend.

[cancidas]

What is a challenge coin? Is it like a unit coin that one would see in the military? I just got a new one the other day from a good friend.
basically yes. normally though they're given out by people of rank. the challenge is when someone in a bar pulls one out, the person with the lowest "ranking" coin pays. we had a lot of fun at the bar after this year's airshow, took the knight's a while to figure out who we were.

[moose135]

I see things online about challenge coins, and how they have been around for years, and such a big deal in the military, but until a couple of years ago, I had never heard of them. We certainly didn't have any around when I was flying the tanker, maybe it just wasn't a SAC thing, but I don't remember hearing any of the fighter-types I bumped into along the way ever mention them either.

[cancidas]

I see things online about challenge coins, and how they have been around for years, and such a big deal in the military, but until a couple of years ago, I had never heard of them. We certainly didn't have any around when I was flying the tanker, maybe it just wasn't a SAC thing, but I don't remember hearing any of the fighter-types I bumped into along the way ever mention them either.
honestly, i think it's a Navy thing. the people that i've seen them with were either active or retired navy. even saw it on TV, in the 6th season of N.C.I.S. there is an episodes where one agent brags to another that they'll never have to pay for drinks again, then produced a SECNAV coin.

[USAF Pilot 07]

honestly, i think it's a Navy thing. the people that i've seen them with were either active or retired navy. even saw it on TV, in the 6th season of N.C.I.S. there is an episodes where one agent brags to another that they'll never have to pay for drinks again, then produced a SECNAV coin.


It's big in the Air Force these days too, especially among the fighter world... I assumed challenge coins have been around for a while. I thought they were started among fliers and then eventually moved on to everyone in the military.

You can challenge someone at the bar, and if they don't have their coin they're supposed to buy your drink. If they do, you buy theirs. If you drop your coin at the bar, you're supposed to buy all drinks for everyone (regardless of if you know them or not), and if you are among a group of people and challenge them, and everyone has a coin you buy everyone drinks, but those that don't have a coin have to buy you and everyone that did have one a drink... Also, there is a "rank" system among coins. If everyone has one, then the one who has the lowest ranking coin has to buy drinks.

Personally I've never really bought into this tradition - it's mainly something the pointy nose guys get all excited about. Nowadays, since no one even goes to the o'club or squadron bars (except in the fighter world where they aren't busy like AMC flying and deploying non-stop) it's not like anyone really carries on the tradition.

I think the coins are cool memorabilia and nice to collect.

[cancidas]

...it's mainly something the pointy nose guys get all excited about.
LOL!!

if my unit[S] had one i'd want it, but i'm not big on collecting much aside from HK's these days.... it would e a cool idea if you picked one up from each squadron/ unit you served in. on that note, i met a NAVY guy out in cali who had a squadron patch on the back of his flight jacket from each one he sailed with, all 11 of them. now that was cool!

[Mateo]

They're spreading outside the military too - the only two I have were given to me by USCIS and Australian Immigration.

[emshighway]

Many carry on the tradition. I know a former corpsman and Paramedic who carries six of them. I have one for 9/11 responders. It has become big in the federal agencies.

I helped a group of Army reservist and special forces a few months at LGA, we set up a special lane for them and had an American flag and company flags present. One of the special forces guys asked me for a card. I didn't think of it until I got a small package from Afghanistan a few weeks ago. In it was a sniper challenge coin. It is beautiful, it even has a cutout with cross-hairs in it. Needless to say I didn't have to buy a drink all that weekend.

Challenge coins are an honor to receive and are not given lightly.

I found a photo of the one I received:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/Sniper_coin.jpg

[PhilDernerJr]

A lot of the laodmasters that I flew with would get them from the unit they were flying when they worked extra hard to get boys home. I never got any except for an AMC one, and my more recent one.

I've seen some VERY cool ones from politicians as well, which I think are especially cool.

[Matt Molnar]

I found a photo of the one I received:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/Sniper_coin.jpg
That is pretty bad ass.

[cancidas]

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j12/emshighway/Sniper_coin.jpg
i love the quote on the reverse side! subtle enough that only those in the know will understand.