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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA few months ago, TSO did a fund raiser here<\/a> for challenge coins for the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd Infantry Regiment at Fort Myers, Virginia. The American Legion reports<\/a> on that event;<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was going through training with many of you, I kept a little green book where I would write down things I wanted to do differently for the organization, and one of those things was the Caisson Platoon coin\u201d said Lt. Dan Nicolosi, the platoon commander for the Caisson Platoon. Little did he know at the time that Leta Carruth, a long-time civilian supporter of the platoon, was working on getting those very coins. Carruth had previously arranged with The American Legion to provide Carhartt cold weather gear to the Caisson platoon, and once again turned to OCW to aid her in this initiative.<\/p>\n Military challenge coins are usually a coin or medallion bearing the units crest of insignia and are collected by members of the unit and others who provide some service or deserve some special merit. The Caisson Coin developed by Carruth and paid for with funds raised under a special fundraiser done by the military blog \u201cThis Ain\u2019t Hell<\/strong>\u201d featured a roughly 5-inch long horseshoe with a horse in the middle. This coin also has etchings along the shoe that have \u201cThe Old Guard\u201d written on one side and \u201cUnited States Army Caisson Platoon\u201d on the obverse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"