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A Marine unit released a video of an aircraft squadron preparing for takeoff with a large stuffed tiger.
The video never explained the tiger, but Insider learned that his name is Tyreese.
The stuffed tiger is part of a long tradition of stuffed tigers going back to the 1950s.
There is a Marine Corps aircraft squadron that deploys with a rather large stuffed tiger.
The 1st Marine Aircraft Wing posted a short video on Twitter in March of multiple MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft with squadron VMM-262 (REIN) taking off from the amphibious assault ship USS America.