Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Challenge Coins: A Military Tradition" video.

If that ridiculous challenge coin drinking game actually exists, it must be extremely specific to non-combat types. In the Marine Corps infantry, we never played that game (though we did drink heavily), nobody carried or cared about challenge coins at all, and had someone tried to challenge us, he would've been laughed out of the place. I only ever had one challenge coin, that my battalion gave out on the Marine Corps birthday when we were in Iraq. I still have it, and it's kinda a cool memento I guess, but I never cared about collecting them or playing silly games with them, and nor did any other Marine I knew.
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@paperburn I suspect patches are far more of a thing in Air Wing units where they're worn on flight suits.
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@paperburn You weren't in the infantry, were you?
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@davidh4555 I got out of the Corps well before Terminal Lance started. I knew what challenge coins were and was entirely aware of the game, but I knew nobody who cared about the coins or played the game. Had I been "challenged", I'd have reacted largely like the Marines in the strip did. Terminal Lance is excellent at noticing trends in the Corps. I got out three years before it started, and much of it rings true to my experience. It had nothing to do with the unpopularity of the silly challenge coin game, which was well established.
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