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Don't Miss T3 in '25!

Saturday 

September 20, 2025

An Authentic Texas Feast at West Point

This is one of the most memorable events that Texas cadets and their friends will attend.  Following the West Point vs North Texas football game is an afternoon of Texas barbecue, beer, bands and, of course, tamales.  Cadets from around the world attend and return year after year.  Read more about T3 below - "The Legend of T3".

Volunteer

T3 is a major planning and logistical event.  From ordering the food and decorations, to its delivery at West Point, to setup, to hosting scores of cadets, it has many moving parts that need to be done.  Please Volunteer some of your time, either here or at West Point or both.


To find out more email

 t3chair@wppcgh.com


T3 CONTRIBUTION LEVELS

SQUAD LEVEL $50

Platoon Level $150

Platoon Level $150

1 Meal Ticket

Platoon Level $150

Platoon Level $150

Platoon Level $150

 1 Meal Ticket 

& 1 RTIC Tumbler 

Company Level $250

Platoon Level $150

Company Level $250

  1 Game Ticket, 1 Meal Ticket              & 1 RTIC Tumbler 

Battalion - $500

Regiment - $1,000

Company Level $250

  2 Game Tickets, 2 Meal Tickets & 1 RTIC Tumbler

Regiment - $1,000

Regiment - $1,000

Regiment - $1,000

4 Game Tickets, 4 Meal Tickets, 1 RTIC Tumbler 

& 1 Table Recognition Sign

Brigade - $2,000

Regiment - $1,000

Regiment - $1,000

4 Game Tickets, 4 Meal Tickets, 2 RTIC Tumblers, 4 T3 Shirts                      & 1 Table Recognition Sign

T3 Contributions

GAME TICKETS ($75)

T3 meal tickets ($32)

T3 store 2025

T3 Merchandise will be available in the Summer of 2025

The Legend of T3

 

The story of how Texas volunteers and companies rally every year to bring a piece of the Lone Star State to West Point cadets.

In 1995, Cadet Powell made a call home from West Point to his dad 1,400 miles away in Texas to deliver the dire news. He wasn’t failing classes. He didn’t have frostbite (yet). He didn’t need money. But he was ailing from something without a simple cure. He was suffering from an acute lack of Tex-Mex.

“Dad,” he said. “We’re starving for tamales up here.”

Doug Powell then did what any true Texan would do for his son stationed in faraway upstate New York. He packed 80 dozen tamales in dry ice and headed for the airport. When he told a representative from the airline what he was shipping to his son and why, the representative (no doubt a native Texan as well) immediately understood the seriousness of the situation. “Just put ‘em in the plane,” he said. No charge, no further explanation needed. That very first tamale shipment from Texas was delivered to cadets under a tent on Buffalo Soldier Field at West Point, near the historic Thayer Hotel.

From that original mission of culinary mercy the Texas Tamale Tailgate was born. Now commonly called T3, the transport of Tex-Mex and barbecue from Texas to West Point is an annual post-football game event hosted by Texas parents for Texas cadets and their fortunate friends. It has evolved into one of the largest, most significant events that the combined West Point parents’ clubs of Texas host, with planning and preparation undertaken throughout the year. Housed in the ‘49er Lodge (an amazing gift from the West Point class of 1949 to the United States Military Academy) a short walk from Michie Stadium, T3 has drawn a steady stream of cadets seeking a taste of home one Saturday afternoon every October since 2002.

Thanks to the incredible generosity of big-hearted Texas companies looking out for the well-being of the state’s native sons and daughters at West Point, the event has grown to serve anywhere from 600-800 cadets and guests, and virtually everything needed for this Texas-sized party is donated free of charge. From one dad answering the call, an army of volunteers and iconic Texas companies and sports teams now join forces to let cadets from Houston to Dallas and from El Paso to Beaumont know that even though they are 1,400 miles away, Texas remembers them and is proud of everything they are doing for our country.

 

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