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In the fall of 1965 West Point cadet Tom Carhart and five of his classmates from the U.S. Military Academy pulled off a feat of extraordinary ingenuity, precision, and raw guts: the theft of the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, just before the biggest football game of the year.
The U.S. forces in Vietnam were then at two hundred thousand and growing, with casualties spiking, and the men in West Point's class of 1966 were well aware that they would serve, and quite possibly die, in that far-off war. But West Point's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country," affirms that its graduates will always obey the decisions of our elected government, and the men of '66 were dutiful: of the 579 who graduated, 30 died in Vietnam and roughly five times that number were wounded. Since this would be the men's last Army-Navy football game as cadets, they wanted to go out with a bang, not a whimper.
Carhart tells the incredible true story of how, in stealing that Navy goat, the cadets unknowingly reenacted the story of Jason and the Golden Fleece from Greek mythology. The caper is interwoven with an insider's narrative about the private lives of six West Point cadets in the early 1960s, who, against all odds, hurled their last hurrah of triumph to America before flying off to fight its wretched war in Vietnam.
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Contents
1. SPNSS, 0010 hours, 21 November 1965
2. High Aspirations
3. Beast
4. Plebes at Last
5. Holiday Cheer
6. Christmas Dinner
7. World Politics
8. SPNSS, 0025 Hours, 21 November 1965
9. Buckner
10. Cold Steel
11. Army Field Training
12. Yearlings
13. Goethe
14. SPNSS, 0030 hours, 21 November 1965
15. Cow Year
16. Firsty Year
17. The Adventure Begins
18. Recon Run
19. Decision Time
20. In Flight
21. Hallelujah!
22. Caravan Crisis
23. Laying Low
24. Inside Connections
25. Time to Deliver
26. Betrayal
27. Falling on Our Swords
28. The Shadow of the Guillotine
29. The Commandant of Cadets
30. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
31. The Engineer
32. Pension Asset Management
33. Saving Apple's Cookies
34. Taking Baghdad
35. Rocket Man
