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At first blush you might think the cruiser Lake Erie’s goat, Master Chief Charlie, was out of place on a warship. But <\/span>You’d be wrong. Charlie’s presence was as firmly rooted in Navy tradition as the jack staff or the ship’s bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t believe it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Type “goat” into the search bar on Naval History and Heritage Command’s website<\/a> and prepare to graze on new informationbe blown away<\/span>. The archives are chockablock with images pictures <\/span>of sailors and goats from every era since cameras first <\/span>made their way on ships in the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goats have shipped out on warships dating back to\u00a0and boats have sailedgone together for centuries and date back to <\/span>the days before refrigeration when sailors needed livestock on ships for milk and meat. And <\/span>The sure-footed quadrupeds were the ideal candidates for\u00a0animals for the hearty<\/span>seagoing life. Smaller and easier to feed and clean up than a cow, and they’re first-class swimmers.\u00a0and cheaper than a cow and, as an added bonus, goats are excellent swimmers!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A sailor petted the ship’s goat in 1908 aboard the battleship Kansas. For sailors, goats have provided both a morale boost and time-consuming chores.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Credit: Naval History and Heritage Command<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But <\/span>As better food preservation and storage technology came into the fleet, the need for goats on ships abated, leaving only but <\/span>the need for furry morale boosters remained steadfast<\/span>. By 1893, the goat had become the de facto symbol of the U.S. Navy when it was adopted as the U.S. Naval Academy’s mascot, according to the Naval <\/span>academy’s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bill the Goat, a full-scale not pygmy <\/span>goat, lives on a farm nearby<\/span>\u00a0Annapolis and is cared for by a volunteer group of midshipmen.\u00a0the Academy’s grounds and is cared for by a volunteer group of middies. <\/span>The USNA mascot is actually two goats, Bill XXXIII and Bill XXXIV, as the Navy believes in building redundancies into anythe<\/span> system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master Chief Charlie, the pygmy goat adopted by the Lake Erie,\u00a0is rumored to be grazing on an undisclosed San Diego farm; he’s been disinvited from mascot activities by in the San Diego area but was banned from further mascot activities on Lake Erie by <\/span>Rear Adm. Dee Mewbourne, the former then-<\/span>head of Carrier Strike Group 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlie may have been good for morale, he had become b-a-a-a-d distraction, Mewbourne decided, and imposed a ban on pets and live mascots across his carrier strike group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mewbourne decided in his endorsement of the investigation into the command climate on board Lake Erie that while \u00a0Mewbourne, therefore, banned pets and live mascots strike-group wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No word has emerged on Charlie’s retirement grade determination or the nature of his discharge from active-duty service<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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