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All Hail His Great Whiskerness
Meet Magawa, a heroic, landmine-clearing, African giant pouched rat whose LinkedIn resume would make an HBS alum jealous.
In a virtual ceremony yesterday, Magawa won Britain’s highest animal honor, the first rat to do so in the 77-year history of the award. And in case you haven’t said “awww” enough already, the gold medal that comes with the award “is perfectly rat-sized and fits onto his work harness” according to NPR.
His body of work: Over the last four years, Magawa deployed his sensitive nose to clear more than 1.5 million square feet of land in Cambodia, finding 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance.
Meet Magawa, a heroic, landmine-clearing, African giant pouched rat whose LinkedIn resume would make an HBS alum jealous.
In a virtual ceremony yesterday, Magawa won Britain’s highest animal honor, the first rat to do so in the 77-year history of the award. And in case you haven’t said “awww” enough already, the gold medal that comes with the award “is perfectly rat-sized and fits onto his work harness” according to NPR.
His body of work: Over the last four years, Magawa deployed his sensitive nose to clear more than 1.5 million square feet of land in Cambodia, finding 39 landmines and 28 items of unexploded ordnance.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown good read/share this morning, I did not know of this.
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SPC Margaret Higgins COL Mikel J. Burroughs CPL Dave Hoover Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SCPO Morris Ramsey PVT Mark Zehner Sgt (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SSG Robert Mark Odom CPL Douglas Chrysler PO1 Tony Holland SGT Steve McFarland SPC Mark Huddleston CW5 Jack Cardwell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO1 Lyndon Thomas PO3 Phyllis Maynard Wayne Soares Capt Dwayne Conyers
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Lt Col Charlie Brown: Our Blessed Sister Charlie, I thank thee; beyond compare; for thy mentioning my name; first; in your Very Honoring list of names.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown: That has got to be the cutest rat; in the whole wide
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world!!! :-)
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Human rats laid them and now a human trained rat is finding them. Pretty impressive.
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