WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY TO BAN PILLOW FIGHTS

U.S. Military Academy officials say they will ban cadet pillow fights at West Point, like the bloody one that left 30 injured this summer. First-year students, known as “plebes,” organize the annual pillow fight as a way to build camaraderie after a grueling summer of training. But the pillow fight on Aug. 20 led to multiple injuries, including a broken nose and 24 diagnosed concussions. Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, West Point’s superintendent, said that the unsanctioned event has “no place in the future” in an academy developing Army officers.
* Worst. Pillows. Ever.
* Either these pillows were filled with something other than feathers, or they were shooting them at each other with canons.
* Building camaraderie with concussions and broken noses? If you say so.
* Fortunately, they haven’t cancelled the annual Army-Navy tickle fight.
* I suppose this would be great training if ISIS happened to fight with pillows.
* From now on all pillow attacks will be handled by unmanned drones.
* Sure, it starts with pillows but next thing you know it escalates to sofa cushions.
* Oh well, at least it wasn’t a panty raid.