United States Army School of the Americas Bronze Army Challenge Coin
United States Army School of the Americas
Cold War
Anti-communist Counterinsurgency Training
(For Latin American Countries and Dictators)
Army Challenge Coin
Condition: Used, and in near mint shape. Please see pictures.
Copyright: DKP (Made specifically for the school back in 1989, by noted challenge coin maker Don Phillips)
It is 1 5/8 inches in diameter.
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas,[1][2] is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel in US-allied Latin American nations.
The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War.[3] In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum.[4][5] In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed to WHINSEC.[6][7]:233
(REF: Wikipedia)