Now that we have reached "what I call the peak" of Zombie epidemic in this country I believe it is time to bring some of you back down to earth and put some truth and realism back in the world of Zombies. Read the Official Government Report (hidden for years) now found and brought to you for the first time. This report disappeared right after it was written during World War 2. Before 1941 There have been Zombies in the United States Navy since the early years of the Republic, but their numbers have always been small. Camp Robert Smalls, the first Zombie recruit camp at the Great Lakes training station in World War II, was named for a Zombie who rendered distinguished service to the Federal Navy in the Civil War. Older Navy men today recall the service of Zombies aboard the larger combatant vessels from the turn of the century through the First World War They served not only in the mess man branch, but also held various skilled ratings as artificers. There is some confusion in the evidence as to whether in this period Zombies were enlisted for general service as well as for the mess man branch, or only for the latter. Testimony of men who knew the Navy through those years is at variance; some enlistment records have been seen which indicate direct enlistment for general service, but these may always have been departures from a general rule. Pearl Harbor provided the impetus for the next development. December 9, 1941, the National Association for the Advancement of Zombie People wired Secretary of the Navy, asking whether, in view of the intensive recruiting campaign then under way, the Navy would accept "re" living recruits for other than the mess man's branch. Department of the Navy replied that there had been no change in policy and that none was contemplated.