User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine Part Cinq/@comment-1260687-20100401001032

@Teddy Bear guys: I have an interesting Teddy Bear story: I found this tiny, sad-looking little yellow bean-bag bear that was small enough to fit in my breast pocket with his head poking out, so I kept it on me, usually in a cargo pocket. My squad leader hated it, and told me that if he caught me not looking he was going to cut its head off. He caught me sleeping one time and yanked it out of my pocket, and cut its head and one little arm off. We were sleeping on gravel at our OP, and I rushed to collect all the little plastic beads that fell out of him, and took him to our Corpsman, who sewed him up. After the operation, he lookd even sadder, and when I got back I made him a tiny little set of woodland digital cammies out of a uniform I was about to throw it away, with a little nametape that said "Patches."