The "BBQ" was a box lunch served in the barracks area on a 100 degree parking lot, after the Lambka Challenge, during Category 5 heat. A few fine folks started this without placing it in context. It's more like the Mess Hall handed out potato chips and box lunches during a heat wave, and called it a BBQ. Hilarious. This is after multiple competitive athletic events during 100 degree heat index all over West Point. This is what Scout calls "relaxing" standards because he didn't do it, I guess. Different is always bad. Despite all US forces in WWII getting Hersheys Bars in rations once in awhile, it's bad, even though it seems that those guys seem to have won the war. Others call it a box lunch on hot pavement after a bit of a suck day in 100 degree heat. Lambka was KIAed by an IED and this challenge, from relays, tire drags, Indoor Obstacle Course, etc, measures the basic skills of the first phase of Beast. It's beyond laughable to see a 20 year old and some codgers describe a box lunch after this as "the Corps going down hill." It was about as much a BBQ as eating 5 alarm chili in Hell after running a 5 mile race, but don't judge USMA by this thread. Just hilarious to see the paintball commandos and geriatrics piping off about "the Corps has."
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