View Full Version : Pillow fight at West Point Military Academy gets bloody
mojaveman
09-05-2015, 11:05
Thirty cadets who just completed their first-year summer training at the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point were injured when an annual pillow fight tradition turned bloody, The New York Times reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/30-military-cadets-hurt-west-point-pillow-fight-055055865.html#
Good....warrior class and pillow fight should not be in the same story line.
Give the cadet that threw the first punch an ARCOM.
Seems like the right level of intensity was achieved - no one was shived - hope they had some fun !
Rumblyguts
09-05-2015, 17:47
Some injured in the 100+ year tradition of warriors is to be expected. Stuffing a helmet inside your pillow case and swinging away isn't.
Pillow fights? The men? I can see the chick's doing it in their nighties, but the men should be using pugil sticks.:confused:
No wonder the officer leadership from the Hudson High School is wanting.
A trad pillow fight.....a micro aggression to be sure.....
Well, they had their glow-belts on, so all is well.
I moved this from "The Comedy Zone" because placing a helmet in a pillowcase to participate in something like this long-standing tradition is not funny and I find it hard to believe that somebody would think it OK to do so.
Richard
I think a traditional pillow fight is funny...as in weird funny.
Not funny, just gay. If you are a man in the military and you are into pillow fights, just start munching pillows with your ass in the air 'cause the sky's the limit for butt-nutting nob-goblins in the military today.
Pillow fights........what next? No chilled salad forks at the regimental mess? No wonder we can't win a fekken war against 4th century savages who wipe their ass with their hand.
Insanity
Not funny, just gay.
That's what I was going to say.
Razor, got an AAR on your pillow fight? :D
Pat
There's only one pillow fight I'd ever watch and only one why I'd watch it ...
... and that's the pillow fight from Animal House.
I'd post up a link, but well .... there are bare boobies seen and it's against the rules.
So look it up yourselves .... :munchin
Maybe if it became traditional to put saps in all of the pillows they could un gay it.
Tree Potato
09-08-2015, 19:32
I moved this from "The Comedy Zone" because placing a helmet in a pillowcase to participate in something like this long-standing tradition is not funny and I find it hard to believe that somebody would think it OK to do so.
Richard
First thought on seeing the headline: here's a DuffleBlog story gone wild. Pillow fight? YGBSM. And the Army makes fun of the Air Force.
Upon reading about our next generation of leaders intentionally doing something cowardly to injure their team mates, the bile rose. Deliberately trying to hurt one of our own who may not suspect a "pillow" is really a weapon? There's the door... don't let it hit on the way out.
There are better ways to take out aggression on each other if needed, such as boxing gloves or other combatives, and everyone in the ring knows what it's about so there's no loss of trust.
getting blood wings in airborne school is bad...
a pillow fight at the US Military Academy is an ongoing tradition...
YGTBFSM - TEOTWAWKI
The Reaper
09-08-2015, 19:56
Leadership failure.
Accountability?
TR
Not funny, just gay. If you are a man in the military and you are into pillow fights, just start munching pillows with your ass in the air 'cause the sky's the limit for butt-nutting nob-goblins in the military today.
Pillow fights........what next? No chilled salad forks at the regimental mess? No wonder we can't win a fekken war against 4th century savages who wipe their ass with their hand.
Insanity
I never saw a pillow fight from 64-68. And, I never heard of one as a tradition. Maybe it's something new.
If someone had a problem with a fellow cadet, it was boxing ring, boxing gloves, referee, and the loser was required to STFU forever after.
As old grads say "The Corps has...." the "gone to hell" part goes without saying.
The requirement to demonstrate one's physical ability to carry a wounded soldier to safety was eliminated. Women couldn't do it. That single elimination bugs me much more than all the other "social crap".
The Academy that was dedicated to the Army became an academy dedicated to the cadets. I have no need for it.
why dont we have any cool pillow fight traditions in the NCOES ?
RomanCandle
09-10-2015, 07:27
I thought the pillow fights only took place between the Team Guys and the NSW book writers. :munchin
Razor, got an AAR on your pillow fight? :D
Pat
Sure.
It wasn't a 'tradition'; it was a spontaneous event that happened one time over my 4 years, with participants from all classes
I had a pretty decent observation point from 5th floor Bradley Long
It wasn't a school wide event (many classmates in other barracks away from Central Area have no memory to this day of it ever happening)
No one even considered wearing helmets (steel pots) or flak vests (not issued)
Many of the feather filled pillows burst open, covering Central Area like a snowstorm
There were broken noses/dislocated shoulders/mild concussions/lacerations requiring sutures back then, even without helmet-loaded pillowcases
A couple jackasses looking to settle some scores that did stuff books in their pillowcases got some immediate 'peer counseling', followed by major slugs that took away about a half a semester of their weekend free time to consider the error of their ways