re: Would one of you mind telling me where the Tiger mascot came from?

They were a bad of scalawags, ruffins, displaced pirates, drukards, and other un savory bastards that were widely feared by both sides, and known to drink all night and fight all day. If they got bored they would raid our own supplies etc, (future marines) so they tried to keep them in action as much as possible or they would riad and pillage our own people or fight among themselves