Parris Island's new Mascot-(15 September 2011) Landon Capenter sleeping next to a photo of his dad, LCpl. Andrew Carpenter. Andrew made the ultimate sacrifice while serving with 3rd battalion, 8th Marines in Afghanistan earlier this year; a month before Landon was born.
They still haven't thought of a name and are taking submissions, so far on Facebook there have been a ton of suggestions to name him "Dakota" after Sgt. Dakota Meyer.