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BEEP Coins, BEEP Stickers and More
BEEP COINS
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
BEEP STICKERS
We've combined the tradition of challenge coins with the tradition of BEEP stickers, the result is a high quality brass diamond shaped coin with your favorite battalion's logo on the front and the iconic battalion number on the back. Perfect for coin collecting, retirement gifts or shadowboxs
BEEP STICKERS
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
BEEP STICKERS
BEEP Stickers used to be hard to come by. Everyone wanted a beep sticker to show some battalion pride on their own vehicle. But you had to have a buddy in Alfa Company who was in good with the Alfa Company Chief. And MAYBE you could score one or two BEEP Stickers.
We've now made it easy for you get your treasured BEEP Stickers! Any Battalion, Unit and Regiment. Commissioned or Retired, we have the BEEP Stickers you want.
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
Challenge coins really didn't start to take hold in the Seabees until the early 1990's. Slowly but surely individual Seabee battalions started to commission coins for their Command. The COs and Command Master Chiefs were granted OPTAR money that they used to commission coins for the battalion. Most of the coins were "awarded" to hard charging Seabees who were doing a great job.
Most of these Seabee battalions have been decommissioned over the years but we have located a majority of the original command coins for the Seabees who served their time but didn't get the coin, or may have lost the coin they had.
HAT PINS
FUTURE BEEP COINS COMING SOON!!!!
TRADITIONAL SEABEE COINS
Our BEEP Coins are so popular that we've decided to offer the same designs in a hat pin. Our high quality hat pins are 1 inch tall by 1 & 1/2 inches wide and constructed from high quality polished brass with an amber coat finish to protect the face of the pin. We always start with NMCB 17 when we try something new, but we will have the all other SEABEE units in the next few months so keep checking in for yours in the near future!!!
FUTURE BEEP COINS COMING SOON!!!!
FUTURE BEEP COINS COMING SOON!!!!
FUTURE BEEP COINS COMING SOON!!!!
Our goal is to produce a BEEP Coin for as many Seabee Units as possible, . Pre - sales help us determine how many coins to order in the first production run and most coins sell out before the production process is complete.
The Tradition of the Challenge Coin
The Tradition of the Challenge Coin
The legend, as it has been told, goes back to the days of World War I. Many Americans volunteered from all parts of the country for hazardous duty in Europe. Some were wealthy young men who were attending college at the time but quit in mid-term to join the war. In one squadron, a wealthy young pilot commissioned some solid bronze medallions and presented them to his unit. One of the pilots placed the medallion in a small leather pouch that he wore around his neck. Sometime later, while on a mission, that pilot's aircraft was severely damaged by ground fire. He was forced to land behind enemy lines and was immediately captured by a German patrol. The Germans took all of his personal identification except for the small leather pouch around his neck. He was then taken to a small French town near the front lines. Taking advantage of a bombardment that night, he escaped. However, he was without personal identification. He dressed in civilian clothes in order to avoid detection by the Germans and eventually reached the front lines. He crossed into no-man's land and ultimately made it to a French outpost. Unfortunately, the French didn’t recognize the young pilot's American accent and he had no identification to prove his identity so the French thought he was either a spy or saboteur and decided to have him executed. He only had his leather pouch containing the medallion. He showed the medallion to his would-be executioners and one of his French captors recognized the squadron insignia on the medallion. They delayed his execution long enough for him to confirm his identity. Instead of shooting him they gave him a bottle of wine.
Once back at his squadron, it became tradition to ensure that all members carried their medallion or coin at all times. This was accomplished through a challenge in the following manner - a challenger would ask to see the medallion. If the challenged could not produce a medallion, they were required to buy a drink of choice for the member who challenged them. If the challenged member produced a medallion, then the challenging member was required to pay for the drink. Thus the tradition of challenge coins and coin collecting was born and continued on throughout the war and for many years after the war while surviving members of the squadron were still alive.
The Tradition of the BEEP Sticker
As Seabee battalions deployed from place to place, the incoming and outgoing battalions would perform a turnover program of facilities and equipment, more commonly known to the Seabees as a BEEP. During a BEEP (Battalion Equipment Evaluation Program) all the equipment is subjected to a thorough inspection and once complete, the incoming battalion takes ownership of the equipment and places a red diamond shaped sticker with the battalion’s number on the front and rear of the equipment. During the deployments, when the Seabees would leave base to go on liberty or leave they would often place their battalion’s BEEP stickers on various objects and places in town as a way to show who was in town and to have some harmless fun. It was not uncommon to see various BEEP stickers in restaurants, pubs, and air ports as well as on statues and military objects and even sometimes on the bumper of visiting dignitaries’ rental cars.
BEEP Coins
It started in the summer of 2014, with the decommissioning of NMCB 17 We wanted some special challenge coins for the occasion, something a little unique but still traditional. We ultimatley combined traditional challenge coins with BEEP stickers and NMCB 17’s Decommissioning Coin was such a hit that it gained attention from coin collecting Seabees around the nation and soon there was a demand for more “BEEP” coins. Now we’re setting out to provide more BEEP coins for our Seabees. . . Active, Reserve and Retired. Keep checking in with us from time to and see what we have coming up in the near future.