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Author Carhart, Tom, author

Title The golden fleece : high-risk adventure at West Point / Tom Carhart
Published Lincoln, NB : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Contents SPNSS, 0010 hours, 21 November 1965 -- High aspirations -- Beast -- Plebes at last -- Holiday cheer -- Christmas dinner -- World politics -- SPNSS, 0025 hours, 21 November 1965 -- Buckner -- Cold steel -- Army field training -- Yearlings -- Goethe -- SPNSS, 0030 hours, 21 November 1965 -- Cow year -- Firsty year -- The adventure begins -- Recon run -- Decision time -- In flight -- Hallelujah! -- Caravan crisis -- Laying low -- Inside connections -- Time to deliver -- Betrayal -- Falling on our swords -- The shadow of the guillotine -- The commandant of cadets -- Vietnam veterans memorial -- The engineer -- Pension asset management -- Saving Apple's cookies -- Taking Baghdad -- Rocket man
Summary "The true story of how six cadets from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point set out to steal the billy goat mascot from their rival, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, interwoven with a narrative about the private lives of West Point cadets in the early 1960s."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Carhart, Tom
SUBJECT Carhart, Tom fast
Subject United States Military Academy -- Biography
United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
United States. Navy -- Mascots
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
United States Military Academy fast
United States. Navy fast
Subject Military cadets -- New York (State) -- West Point -- Biography
Military cadets -- New York (State) -- West Point -- Humor
Sports team mascots -- United States -- History
Student activities -- United States
Practical jokes -- United States -- History
College wit and humor.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Military.
Armed Forces -- Mascots
Armed Forces -- Officers
College wit and humor
Military cadets
Practical jokes
Sports team mascots
Student activities
New York (State) -- West Point
United States
Genre/Form Humor
Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017037560
ISBN 9781612349855
1612349854
9781612349862
1612349862
9781612349879
1612349870
Other Titles High-risk adventure at West Point