{"id":25240,"date":"2013-08-28T00:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25240"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:58:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:58:52","slug":"marines-and-challenge-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/marines-and-challenge-coins\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines and Challenge Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Marine article covers the tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/112339\/challenge-coins-wheres-yours\">military &#8220;challenge coins.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 The article acknowledges the origin of the tradition has been lost to time, though he repeats one possibility from the World War I fighter pilot story (the same story <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/13\/history-of-the-unit-coin\/\">told here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As with many traditions, even if they were &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/federal-lawsuit-threatened-over-fighter-pilot-songs-traditions\/\">fighter pilot traditions<\/a>,&#8221; they tend to cross functional and even Service lines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Marine article covers the tradition of military &#8220;challenge coins.&#8221;\u00a0 The article acknowledges the origin of the tradition has been lost to time, though he repeats one possibility from the World War I fighter pilot story (the same story told here). As with many traditions, even if they were &#8220;fighter pilot traditions,&#8221; they tend to cross functional and even [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1602,5285,149,2,40],"class_list":["post-25240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-coin","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}