Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Importance of Firefighter Challenge Coins


Firefighters work in frontlines to safeguard the interest of the public in any state. They are the very well respected part of our community as they protect us from any harm from fire by pointing their lives in danger. Firefighters are needed to be provided with the care and respect. They need encouragement, they need excitement, they need enthusiasm, and they need the love of the people. You cannot motivate them by just increasing their salaries but you have to do very much along with it. All of this can be given to them with the help of Firefighter Challenge Coins. Coins have been the very best tactic from last number of years for providing the confidence in the frontline officers. 

Coins are thought to be used for the first time at the time of World War I in US army to create the harmony and recognition among the army officers as well other allies. After the happening of War, people and armies knew the importance of challenge coins. And since then these coins are being used in all over the world in every state departments just to give the specific identity to the employees and officers and similar is with the firefighter challenge coins.

Firefighter challenge coins are divided into special categories. There are basic challenge coins that are given to every firefighter in USA annually, while one of the types of firefighter challenge coins is given the firefighters who performed tremendously very well and saved to lives of many people. These types of firefighters are granted with prize money. And the one type of firefighter coins is given to the officers at the time of retirement.
Firefighter Challenge Coins are specially designed by the professional artists and it requires the experience and skill of years. So we should not forget the importance of these coins.

1 comment:

  1. What a great coin. My son has just began collecting these challenge coins. He really finds it thrilling to learn the history on why the person actually received the coin. I love to hear the stories behind the coins as well. Thanks for sharing.

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