{"id":29441,"date":"2012-04-09T11:59:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29441"},"modified":"2012-04-09T11:59:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:59:57","slug":"good-news-for-tso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29441","title":{"rendered":"Good news for TSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CV.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29366\" title=\"CV\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CV.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CV.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CV.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2012\/04\/pentagon-study-finds-beards-directly-proportional-to-combat-effectiveness\/\">Duffel Blog<\/a> (remember it&#8217;s satire) recount a Pentagon study on beards in combat;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cXegis 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2012\/04\/pentagon-study-finds-beards-directly-proportional-to-combat-effectiveness\">read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at Duffel Blog (remember it&#8217;s satire) recount a Pentagon study on beards in combat; \u201cWe 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7ER","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}