Posted on 09/05/2015 4:32:32 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.
But this year the fight on the West Point, N.Y., campus turned bloody as some cadets swung pillowcases packed with hard objects, thought to be helmets, that split lips, broke at least one bone, dislocated shoulders and knocked cadets unconscious. The brawl at the publicly funded academy, where many of the Armys top leaders are trained, left 30 cadets injured, including 24 with concussions, according to West Point.
In interviews, cadets who asked that their names not be used for fear of repercussions in West Points strictly controlled culture, said the fight had left one cadet with a broken leg and dislocated shoulders in others. One cadet was knocked unconscious and taken away in an ambulance and had not returned to school, they said. But a spokesman for the academy, Lt. Col. Christopher Kasker, said all cadets had returned to duty.
Though talk about the brawl on Aug. 20 had circulated on social media, West Point did not confirm it to The New York Times until Thursday.
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All they had to do was use hotel pillows. Those will knock someone out cold.
And these who post on here are shocked about this?
Fist fights and stuff has been going on there for ages.
But, since this was organized and sanctioned by the administration, there wont be the usual stint on the parade ground for punishment and all that.
Duty, HONOR, Country.
Yeah, but they didn’t and cheerfully complied and participated in the “respect women” feminazi exercise, because these pajama boys were indoctrinated well before they entered college.
Get on your local school board ... I did.
Yes and that is why I would expel the entire class sans the cheaters being turned in.
30 some hospitalized with concussions and broken bones? Tax money spent for this nonsense?
Nightboy sadism.
“It’s right here, in chapter 97, Jocko.”
Amish?
Playfighting always escalates to real fighting.
How long has this pillow fight been a "tradition"?
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