Pall Aeropower Corporation Military Challenge Coin
Pall Aeropower Corporation makes the Engine Air Particle Separator for the CH-47 Chinook, hence the depiction on the coin. They make lots of other stuff for the military too - mostly filters I believe.
You can check out the aerospace portion of their website.
http://www.pall.com/Aerospace.asp
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Survival Systems USA Challenge Coin
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- Survival Systems USA Challenge Coin
This Challenge Coin is more of the “Business Card” type, given to graduates of “Dunker Training” conducted by Survival Systems USA on behalf of the US armed forces. Dunker Training teaches pilots how to survive a water landing. Generally, when an aircraft such as a helicopter goes down into the water, it sinks very rapidly, and to get out of an aircraft alive requires instinctive action on part of the crewmembers. They teach these skills by simulating water landings, over and over and over till the pilots hate water, and learn never to crash in it. Unless, of course, your Sully, but that’s another story all in itself.
The front of the challenge coin has written across the rim “SURVIVAL SYSTEMS USA”, with the company logo in the middle. The company logo is an orange outlined square inside of which waves are breaking across an expanse of open water with a small orange dot in the left upper corner. The logo represents the opportunity for survival in the ocean/sea. The dot is supposed to represent a person who successfully escaped a water landing/or other equally unfortunate incident. The waves are depicted in black and white, so it sort of looks like zebra skin.
The back of the Survival Systems USA coin has the company logo of the waves with a single dot, larger and below the logo is a picture of the METS M-40 simulator. The simulator is a configurable dunking training systems that can “become” the cockpit of a CH-47 chinook or UH-60 blackhawk helicopter.
All in all a nice challenge coin, a small one, maybe an inch in diameter. The logo is hard to interpret without company staff to explain, otherwise your imagination starts to take over.
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