// Testimonial
May 12, 2026
Personal 10th Special Forces Group Challenge Coin | Excalibur Industries- Some challenge coins commemorate missions, deployments, or military units.
Others preserve an entire lifetime of service, leadership, brotherhood, and legacy.
After working with Excalibur Industries to produce the official Camp Mackall Chapter 6 Special Forces Association challenge coin, retired Major Tim Howle decided to create something even more personal — a custom-engineered challenge coin built around his own service in the Regiment.
The result became a deeply meaningful commemorative piece honoring a lifetime connected to Special Forces, family, and the brotherhood that defines the Green Beret community.
Major Tim Howle served proudly in the legendary 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and wanted that history permanently represented within the coin design.
From the beginning, the project focused on authenticity, military heritage, and personal meaning.
The personalized military challenge coin incorporated:
Working through the Excalibur Industries engineering process, every detail was carefully developed to create a challenge coin worthy of the Regiment and the Special Forces brotherhood.
This is what separates a true custom military challenge coin from a generic promotional coin.
The coin becomes a permanent representation of service, identity, and legacy.
The purpose behind this project made the coin even more meaningful.
Major Howle designed the commemorative challenge coins to distribute during his 70th birthday celebration in July 2026 as keepsakes for family members and close friends.
All ten of his grandchildren will receive one of the personalized challenge coins.
The goal was simple but powerful:
To leave behind something tangible that helps future generations understand the values, sacrifices, pride, and brotherhood shared inside the Special Forces Regiment.
That is the true purpose of a properly engineered veteran legacy coin.
Not simply decoration.
Not novelty.
Legacy.
At Excalibur Industries, projects like this represent the heart of what the company was built to do.
Many veterans carry decades of deployments, memories, sacrifices, and experiences that deserve to be preserved with dignity and craftsmanship.
A personalized Special Forces challenge coin becomes a permanent artifact connected directly to those experiences and the people who lived them.
That mission is especially important within the Green Beret community, where lineage, service, and brotherhood carry lifelong meaning.
The Excalibur Archive was created specifically to preserve these stories — not just the challenge coins themselves, but the military history and veterans behind them.
Every project at Excalibur Industries moves through a structured engineering pipeline focused on:
Excalibur Industries specializes in:
Perhaps the most meaningful part of this project is knowing that decades from now, Major Howle’s grandchildren will still have a physical reminder of his life, service, and connection to the Regiment.
Because Special Forces is more than a military assignment.
It is a lifelong brotherhood.
And sometimes a single challenge coin can carry an entire lifetime of meaning.
