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Goat Removed from USS Lake Erie Along with CO
Military.com ^ | May 4, 2015 | Tom Perry

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 ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1904; 2015; agriculture; goat; hawaii; johnbanigan; masterchiefcharlie; military; napl; navy; strawberries; ussbrooklyn; usslakeerie; usswisconsin
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The CO must have 'got a higher-ups goat' and being scapegoated.
1 posted on 05/09/2015 5:40:23 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

Sounds like the whole investigation was a goat rope..


2 posted on 05/09/2015 5:42:04 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: QT3.14

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.


3 posted on 05/09/2015 5:43:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: QT3.14

Stuff like this really gets MY goat. I am not kidding.


4 posted on 05/09/2015 5:43:53 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: QT3.14

Sounds like a movie with Jack Lemmon and James Cagney....


5 posted on 05/09/2015 5:44:17 PM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: QT3.14

I really hope the goat was not removed from a barrel.


6 posted on 05/09/2015 5:46:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: QT3.14

Someone(s) molested the goats - my guess. They new and improved military.


7 posted on 05/09/2015 5:47:43 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: fhayek

I see what ya done there...


8 posted on 05/09/2015 5:49:00 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: QT3.14

Muslim convert?


9 posted on 05/09/2015 5:49:47 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: QT3.14

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.


10 posted on 05/09/2015 5:50:12 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: humblegunner

Ping to your interests.


11 posted on 05/09/2015 5:50:15 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: humblegunner

Ping to your interests.


12 posted on 05/09/2015 5:51:06 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Nah...the Goat was properly relieved by a Seaman Apprentice....or is that Semen Apprentice, now-a-days?


13 posted on 05/09/2015 5:52:51 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: QT3.14

The Caine Mutiny

14 posted on 05/09/2015 5:52:56 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: QT3.14

I thought that only the Army had goats, like Custer.


15 posted on 05/09/2015 5:53:05 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not a goat ping.


16 posted on 05/09/2015 5:54:18 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: QT3.14

You’d think that with all the females on board our naval vessels the goat would be more-or-less superfluous.


17 posted on 05/09/2015 5:55:28 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SgtBob

Old joke

“Are you now or have you ever been a practicing homosexual?”

“Actually sir, I don’t need any practith...”


18 posted on 05/09/2015 5:56:36 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: clintonh8r
Sounds like a movie with Jack Lemmon and James Cagney....

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!

19 posted on 05/09/2015 5:57:13 PM PDT by QT3.14 ("What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision" - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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Were there any strawberries involved?

5.56mm

20 posted on 05/09/2015 5:57:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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