Anna Redmond

Founder of Braav (physical security + workplace violence prevention) and AllCoin (digital-twin challenge coins). Veteran community builder. Speaker.

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A challenge coin is a lifetime of narratives in one object.

Sometimes memorable. Sometimes impressive. Sometimes solemn.

They represent the best of us.

Show me yours - and tell me how you got it.

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@PapierMich47737 The Adkins story gets me - you paid for a signature, he passed, and his coin showed up instead. That's the object doing the job the signature was going to do. Honest question: of the two, which one means more to you?

[Anna Redmond @AnnaRedmond_B]

A challenge coin is a lifetime of narratives in one object.

Sometimes memorable. Sometimes impressive. Sometimes solemn.

They represent the best of us.

Show me yours - and tell me how you got it.

[Anna Redmond @AnnaRedmond_B]

I never served. I came at this as an outsider who kept hearing the same thing: the coin outlives the story unless someone writes the story down. That's why AllCoin exists - the coin stays yours, we make sure its story can't get lost. Free, because charging for that felt wrong.

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@Rekkr95 @SGTWipper1Each On display, where it belongs. And good to hear the tradition itself is still alive - even if the standard run doesn't carry what yours does. The gap between the coin everyone gets and the coin you got is usually where the story sits.

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@PapierMich47737 Leroy Petry and Bennie Adkins in one hand - that's a serious pair. Coins with a Medal of Honor recipient's name on them usually come from the man himself. Did you get these in person?

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@Rekkr95 @SGTWipper1Each That's a shame - a coin carrying that much history deserves to keep moving. Where does yours live now, on display or tucked away?

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Then, as the handshake breaks: 'Now, go fix your moustache.' 'WILCO, Sarn't Major.' Two years later, that phrase - Sergeant's Business - showed up in writing as division training guidance. The coin marked one morning in the winter of '91. The phrase outlived it.

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The best coin handover I've heard runs like a script. You report. Slight squint, eyes a bit wider, mutual half nod. The coin moves in the handshake: 'Keep doing Sergeant's Business.' 'Thank you, Sarn't Major.'

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@DonutOperator Gary Sinise having the deepest coin collection tracks - nobody outside the military has been handed more of them for just showing up. Real question for this thread: if you could only keep one of yours, which one is it?

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@Rekkr95 @SGTWipper1Each Taking care of one of his soldiers is exactly what a coin should be for - and yours was made for you specifically, unit on one side, job on the other. Have you ever come across another one like it, or is it still the only one?

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@RaymondAnMurphy @SGTWipper1Each Seventy-five coins across a few moves - that's not a collection, that's an archive gone. At least the Murphy opener made it through, and it was always the best story of the bunch. Do you ever think about rebuilding it?

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@JMooreP3 @SGTWipper1Each The oncologist insisting on being in the photo is my favorite part - the staff know the bell matters too. The coin and the bell are the same instinct: finishing something hard deserves a marker you can hold.

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@Kenny_A_1 @SGTWipper1Each The details blur but he doesn't - that says everything about the kind of Master Sergeant he was. Hope somebody comes through with a name. He's still the part of the story you kept.

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@protectingblue In the vest is the right answer. Does it stay with the dog when he retires, or go home with the handler?

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@BigBeeBeeLLC @SGTWipper1Each So a coin from another country's marines sits in the same tray and nothing about it stands out. The format travels further than I thought. Any of yours look nothing like the rest?

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@RaymondAnMurphy @SGTWipper1Each One good exchange, never crossed paths again, and you still have the coin from it. That's most of the stories I hear. Is it out somewhere, or put away?

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@JMooreP3 @SGTWipper1Each Fifty years between your first one and a radiation completion coin from Mayo. Same idea in different clothes - somebody decided that finishing deserved something you can hold. Do you keep it out?

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@IronMikeGolf1 @SGTWipper1Each "Keep doing Sergeant's Business," then go fix your moustache. That's the whole ritual in two lines. And then the phrase comes back as division guidance two years later - did the coin end up standing for the phrase, or for that morning?

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@Stick4Veterans @SGTWipper1Each The whole truck got coined - gunner, driver, and you - after briefing Senators off a MaxxPro mid-drawdown. That's exactly who these should go to.

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@tayloden @SGTWipper1Each Your own commander, on a SecDef mission east of Kabul - that's the whole tradition in one story. Hope the real one makes it out of storage someday.

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@Rekkr95 @SGTWipper1Each Eindhoven, Normandy, Bastogne on one coin - that's the whole Band of Brothers route in your pocket. Does the unit still hand these out today?