The Army Mascot
Pluto sees the great chow the mascots at the army base are getting and decides he wants some of that. He sneaks in and disguises himself as Gunther Goat, but the “food” is just a bunch of tin cans. Gunther runs him off. Later, Gunther chews on some tobacco, so Pluto does the same, which impresses the GIs but Gunther butts him and makes him swallow it, making Pluto turn all kinds of colors. While Pluto is out, Gunther prepares to butt him into the ammo dump, but Pluto collapses and Gunther himself gets blown sky high, clearing the way for a new mascot.
Pluto tries to displace a goat as an army mascot, purely for the rations. It is one of the gentlest of the war-era shorts — the military setting is scenery, and the actual subject is a hungry dog and a very unimpressed goat.
Set on a wartime army base, though the comedy is entirely about the food.