<p>Bill the Goat(s) kidnapped story and YouTube video link:</p>
<p>[Navy</a> goats kidnapped, returned - Naval Academy - (HometownAnnapolis.com)](<a href=“Real Estate – Capital Gazette”>Real Estate – Capital Gazette)</p>
<p>Too funny especially the Navy reply! Thanks for finding and posting.</p>
<p>question: why are the thieves wearing BDU’s and not ACU’s if they’re Army?</p>
<p>too funny!!! </p>
<p>seems like a lot of rejoicing up on the hudson today!!!
[United</a> States Military Academy at West Point](<a href=“http://www.usma.edu%5DUnited”>http://www.usma.edu)</p>
<p>hope the mids give a well measured response!!! like the year the exchange students captured the cannons and hoisted them atop the barracks---- aimed at the parade field! According to WP tour guides, what took the mids “a few hours under the cover of night” took the WP engineers “over a week to get them down”…!!! </p>
<p>or the morning when the entire corps assembled on the parade grounds for meal formation, only to see the sign on the Supe’s porch “reversed” to read “GO NAVY BEAT ARMY”…!!! </p>
<p>gotta love them!!! :)</p>
<p>Now, we get down to the SERIOUS business! </p>
<p>Go NAVY! Whoop WPs!!</p>
<p>Oh, it’s on now!</p>
<p>GO NAVY! BEAT ARMY!</p>
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<p>I think your tour guide has his/her story confused. It was not exchange students that pulled off this prank. </p>
<p>“Douglas MacArthur, who was number-one man in his class of 1903, engineered the removal of the reveille cannon to the top of the clock tower in what is now Pershing Barracks. It took the post engineers, working in daylight, several days to remove the cannon the cadets had moved in one night.” quote from: “Duty First” by Ed Ruggero - page 46</p>
<p>If Douglas MacArthur was given credit for the cannon-moving stunt, then it was probably his mother’s idea in the first place!</p>
<p>“He may also have been the only cadet in the history of the academy whose mother lived in the hotel at West Point during the entire four years of his cadetship…She remained at West Point so she could be with Douglas every day and could look out from the window of her room at Craney’s Hotel every night to his window in the barracks, to see how late he stayed up studying.”<br>
Ike by Michael Korda</p>
<p>Talk about meddling moms! Hmm, mando study hours, sounds familiar…</p>
<p>The BDU wear out date for us is not until next year, so we still wear existing BDUs…</p>
<p>LOL!!! Well no doubt he was influenced by the visiting Mids!!! (no way he was an army of one!!! ) ;)</p>
<p>Doug’s meddling mom was a Helicopter Parent before helicopters were invented!!</p>
<p>[Bill</a> has fender-bender while hiding from Army pranksters - Naval Academy - (HometownAnnapolis.com)](<a href=“Real Estate – Capital Gazette”>Real Estate – Capital Gazette)</p>
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