Posted on 05/09/2015 5:40:23 PM PDT by QT3.14
Navy Capt. John Banigan is no longer aboard the San Diego-based guided missile cruiser Lake Erie.
Neither is a goat named Master Chief Charlie.
Banigan was ousted from command last week after the brass lost confidence in his ability to lead, the standard explanation when a commanding officer is removed.
Banigan has been reassigned to a desk job. Master Chief Charlie is also ashore, though it remains unclear whether he is on Navy property or civilian property. He is, however, in excellent health, the Navy said.
The fate of the captain and the goat became mixed when the Navy began an investigation into the command climate aboard the Lake Erie, which was reassigned to San Diego from Hawaii in September.
According to Navy Times, one of the things that investigators found was that Banigan allowed Master Chief Charlie to make the trip from Hawaii to San Diego.
Banigan may have failed to comply with the rules of the California Department of Food and Agriculture that require anyone bringing farm animals into the state to have them checked out by a veterinarian.
The exact reason for Banigan's removal as the ship's skipper remain unclear. The Navy declines to comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
Sounds like the whole investigation was a goat rope..
Gay,,,, our senior commanders are al closet homos with MBAs or something. But they certainly aren’t military leaders. If we ever face anything besides a third world joke of a military, or have our technology compromised, we are so screwed.
Stuff like this really gets MY goat. I am not kidding.
Sounds like a movie with Jack Lemmon and James Cagney....
I really hope the goat was not removed from a barrel.
Someone(s) molested the goats - my guess. They new and improved military.
I see what ya done there...
Muslim convert?
I worked on Boat Crew {liberty Launches} as the enginemen when we went to the Med Sea. In Genoa I was working on a PB {Officers Boat} one night running between the ship and shore. A squadron officer tried to bring a pig back to the ship with him LOL.
Ping to your interests.
Ping to your interests.
Nah...the Goat was properly relieved by a Seaman Apprentice....or is that Semen Apprentice, now-a-days?
I thought that only the Army had goats, like Custer.
Not a goat ping.
You’d think that with all the females on board our naval vessels the goat would be more-or-less superfluous.
Old joke
“Are you now or have you ever been a practicing homosexual?”
“Actually sir, I don’t need any practith...”
Capt. Morton: [on the loudspeaker in reference to his "missing" palm tree goat... ]
All right! Who did it? Who did it? You are going to stand sweating at those battle stations until someone
confesses! It's an insult to the honor of this ship! The symbol of our cargo record has been destroyed
and I'm going to find out who did it if it takes all night!
5.56mm
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