Military Challenge Coins After the Retirement

The coins that are presented to the military officers after retirement cannot be actually termed as military challenge coins. These coins are not that are challenged in the bars or kept as a secret identity how ever the importance of these coins is quite a lot and the officers who are given these coins, keep them in special cases/ boxes/ files/albums, etc through which they can be easily seen and not touched by the hand to avoid making them dirty. There are several people who think that they can manage things in a much better way by getting special glass tables minted for these military challenge coins.

The special glass tables or wall hangings that are made for the military challenge coins are such that the coins are placed within the glass and the glass or the table be tilted the other way round to see the head and tales both sides of the coins without having to touch them which easily makes the surface of the coin dirty. The coins lose their importance once they start getting dirty or black and so the best way to preserve them is to keep them in the special cases they are presented in or in special albums which show both the sides of the coins.

The use of the military challenge coins is not just restricted to the military level but it is being used on several different levels which include other government departments as well as private sectors which use these coins as a mode of advertisement.

The Meaning of Military Challenge Coins for Soldiers

Every member of the military knows about that those have to be a hard worker. There are some of the members of the army whose expectation are very high from which those are deserving. There are some of the cases in which the productivity of the soldier and efficiency and also his encouragement is excellent and those are rewarded with the handshake or with some type certificate and also some time orally . So there is another way in which the soldier who are very hard worker and sincere with their duty as well as their department are rewarded with the Military Challenge Coins and these coins have very special importance among them. When the members of the military goes another place in the order of the army then those shows these Military Challenge Coins to the people with great pride some time those have photographed , dog tags, and also some time wedding rings.

There are many different challenge coins with different shapes , sizes and colors which are given to the soldier at different occasions like for the appreciation or any time in exchange for the post and given at some specific task. If someone has the unique coin then it means that person has done some valuable task. There is no need to give the challenge coins to every member within the group.

So there are some coins which represent very much serious situations which are the part of the relax tradition. Sometime there is the situation in which these coins are also given just for the challenge the fellow soldier. For example if they're all the soldiers have gone together and one of them has the Military Challenge Coins then that person can challenge the other soldiers for producing that coin. And the person is fall to produce the coin then he has to buy the drinks for others and if the challenger is failing for his given challenge then he has to buy the drinks for others.