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United States Army School of the Americas

Command Sergeant Major

CSM

Army Challenge Coin

Condition: Used, and in good shape. It has patina and surface marks from age/handling. Please see pictures.

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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation)

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