The Navy mascots have been victims of kidnappings over the years. The first reported kidnapping was in 1953, when a group of West Pointers secretly visited the Yard. This would continue throughout the 1990s, and in 1995, West Point took three Bills from a farm and took them to Fort Bragg in North Carolina. They left behind a sheet with "Go Army, Beat Navy" and a drawing of a slashed goat.