73rd Engineer Company Airborne River Rats Army Challenge Coin Department / Agency These are New Old Stock

These are New Old Stock (NOS)

He was given this coin as the NCOIC of Checkpoint Charlie in 1989 during the Cold War against the Soviet Union

Type 1 was the initial coin made

Quantities minted: 259 Gold toned color

They were told told to stop using this symbol in 2012 by Marine Corps leadership

73rd Engineer Company Airborne River Rats Army Challenge Coin Department / Agency These are New Old Stock1 1 2 inch Challenge Coin, circa 1980s. The 73rd Engineer Company was first constituted on 1 October 1933 in the Regular Army as the 73rd Engineer Company and activated on 1 August 1941 at Fort Lewis, Washington. It was reorganized and redesignated on 8 June 1942 as the 73rd Engineer Light Ponton Company. During the Second World War, the Company recieved streamers for 4 campaigns: American Theater (streamer without inscription), Asiatic Pacific