Sgt. Chesty’s successor, Pfc. Chesty XIV, will be promoted at the ceremony to lance corporal and begin his career as the Marine Corps mascot.

and its physical mascot is as colorful as they come. It's a blue chipmunk named Chipper who carries a pick-ax. Lejeune students in 1944 took the moniker Devilpups, a reference to the Marine Corps ...