Round shaped coin, brass in color, 1 5/8 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • 7th Marines
  • 1st Marine Division
  • Phoenix Chap., 1st Marine Div. Assn.
Location
Coin Location: 12D10
Homebase: Twenty Nine Palms, California
Deployment: SPMAGTF, Kuwait
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 19 September 2014
Donated by: LCpl Jeremy "Nick" Reynosa
Copies: 1 of 1

C004754

Location: 12D10

Coin: Group

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Narrative

Round shaped coin, brass in color, 1 5/8 inches in diameter.

SIDE 1 - A round shaped disc with a variation of the 7th Marine Regiment insignia center with a red ribbon banner labeled, "1ST MARINE DIVISION, FMF" above, and a red ribbon banner labeled, "PREPARE TO MARCH" below.

SIDE 2- A round shaped disc with 1st Marine Division insignia center with the words, "PHOENIX CHAPTER" in red letters on a horizontal line above, and the words, 'WE ARE WITH YOU" in red letters with a white 5-pointed star at each end along the top edge of the disc; "1ST MARINE DIV ASSN" in red letters on a horizontal line below, and the words, "FIGHT TO WIN" in red letters with a 5-pointed star at each end along the bottom edge of the disc.

Journal - Page 108 - Line 20

Donor was assigned to Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. His battalion was part of a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force with operations in Kuwait.