July 11 - BLC/CRS Dining Out

Dining Outs are traditional military dinners with a number of time-honored traditions. What you'll see in the photo set is more like a military Dining In which is a dinner with just the members of a particular unit dining together, normally a less formal affair. But because of a couple of guests and the fact that both BLC and CRS participated this affair technically became a Dining Out.

Dining Outs are normally formal events, which as you can see from the pictures this was not. Make-shift obstacle course, kiddie-pool sized grog, pugil sticks, and food fights led to a very fun evening.

The horrible combination of this and that which you'll see the two officers adding to that kiddie pool is what is called "the grog". Each ingredient represents something significant. When someone breaks a rule of the mess (many and varied) they can be called out by someone and if the MC of the dinner (Mr. Vice) deems it necessary they will have to take a drink from the grog. Oh, the losers of the pugil stick matches also had to drink from the grog, the perfect motivation for victory.

The dinner went a long way to building camaraderie as well as some competition between the BLC students and the Cadet Ranger School trainees.


Respectfully,

2LT