Military mascot refers to a pet animal maintained by a military unit for ceremonial purposes or as an emblem of that unit.
It may also be referred to as a ceremonial pet or regimental mascot.
It differs from a military animal in that it is not employed for use directly in warfare as a weapon or for transport.
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“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
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