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greensideout
12-14-08, 10:23 PM
I was making a belt buckle with a Sharpshooter badge for a Marine friend. I put it to the buffing wheel and soon discovered that the badge was brass with a silver flash! My awards were all "Sterling Silver". When was the change from silver to brass made?

Wyoming
12-14-08, 10:42 PM
That is a new one. Didn't know either.

davblay
12-14-08, 11:16 PM
I still got my shooting badge from boot camp, it is sterling silver, stamped on the back.

Sgt Leprechaun
12-17-08, 09:31 AM
Not sure myself when that came about. I'd guess that the issue ones from Recruit training have been 'non sterling' for quite some time, I have some older ones in my collection still on the cards, and they aren't sterling. The private purchase ones seem to tend in that direction, tho.

I'd say sometime likely after Vietnam they changed.