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      Default Pentagon Study Finds Beards Directly Related To Combat Effectiveness

      Pentagon Study Finds Beards Directly Related To Combat Effectiveness

      Tampa, FL – Forget new gear, weapons, or sophisticated targeting systems. The newest tool coming to combat troops is low-tech: beards. In a report released yesterday, research think-tank Xegis Solutions noted that beards have a direct correlation to combat effectiveness.

      Jonathon Burns was the lead researcher in the study.

      “We took 100 soldiers. 25 were Special Forces qualified and had beards, 25 were Special Forces qualified without beards, 25 were regular Army allowed to grow beards for the study, and the last 25 were regular Army without beards. All 100 of these subjects were in direct combat in Afghanistan during the study.”

      He continued, “Xegis Solutions had several teams of researchers embedded with these troops to make observations on their combat effectiveness. The results were overwhelming, out of the 50 soldiers with beards, zero were wounded or killed and they had a significantly higher accuracy of fire than the soldiers without beards. The soldiers lacking beards had a higher rate of weapons malfunctions and basically, shit went wrong most of the time.”

      CENTCOM wasted no time establishing a new rule forcing males to grow beards.

      Commander Gen. James E. Mattis issued a statement to all troops in combat zones.

      “The time has come for the Armed Forces to accept the facts, and the facts are that beards save lives. All this time it was speculated that Green Berets were better because of their superior and intensive training while in fact, most of it had to do with beards.”

      There’s no doubt that many in the Special Forces community will be angered, but General Mattis is convinced.

      “It’s settled science. In light of this information we will enforce a rule requiring all males to wear at least one inch of facial hair at all times. Furthermore, any females able to grow facial hair are encouraged to do so as well.”



      http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/04/pe...effectiveness/

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      Default Re: Pentagon Study Finds Beards Directly Related To Combat Effectiveness

      Funny stuff! On the other hand my wife's car does run better since she grew a beard, and we do win a lot more bar fights now.......

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