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The Golden Fleece - High-Risk Adventure at West Point (Hardcover)
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The Golden Fleece - High-Risk Adventure at West Point (Hardcover)
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In the fall of 1965, Army cadet Tom Carhart and five others at West
Point Academy pulled off a feat of precision and ingenuity that
made them famous: the theft of the Navy's Billy-Goat mascot from
their rival academy, Annapolis, just before the biggest game of the
year. With U.S. forces in Vietnam swollen to nearly 200,000 and
American casualties steadily growing, it was an unnerving time to
join the military. At West Point, the young men preparing to
graduate the following June were well aware that they would be
called upon to serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off
country where war raged. That November would be the last Army-Navy
football game any of the six cadets would ever participate in, so
they had to make it count. After an embarrassing theft of their
mascot ten years earlier, the Navy went to extraordinary lengths to
make sure it could never happen again. Formal agreements were made
between the two superintendents, who subsequently threatened fire
and brimstone to any of their charges who dared go near the other
Academy. To reinforce those orders, during the week before The Big
Game, the Navy placed their goat in an effectively impregnable
lockup under 24/7 guard by U.S. Marines at an intimidating Naval
Security Station--a modern day Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece by
Tom Carhart is the incredible true story, told by one of the
participants, of how six West Point cadets in the Class of 1966 set
out to steal that Golden Fleece, and how they succeeded against all
odds. The Golden Fleece is a rollicking non-fiction military caper
about a famous prank conducted by these cadets as their one last
hurrah before shipping off to a war they might not come back from.
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