I met R. Lee Ermey at the IACP Conferences the last three years (New Orleans, San Diego, and Denver). At the San Diego Conference, he shook my hand and slipped me one of the big, heavy pewter challenge coins and whispered, "I don't give these out to everyone, so keep it under your hat."
I will treasure it always, as I'm sure you will treasure yours. They are quite rare. Glock nuts want them badly.
On a side note, I must tell a story about meeting Ermey in New Orleans:
There was a very, very, very attractive Mexican woman in front of me in line to meet Ermey. She was with two Mexican men with a particular company and she did not speak English.
Ermey was very personable to them, asked the one gent who spoke English where they were from in Mexico, and took photos with them.
Did I mention that the woman was extremely attractive? As she walked away and I stepped up to meet Ermey, he grabbed my hand, pulled me in close, and looked to his left as the woman walked away.
His eyes were fixed below her waist and he quietly said to me, "If all of them trying to sneak across the border looked like her, we really wouldn't complain, would we?"
That's one of the funniest, most un-politically correct things I've ever heard! Absolutely perfect coming from the Gunny!