Zilch
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You betcha! Wouldn't miss it for the world. See you there, and congrats on acceptance.
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You betcha! Wouldn't miss it for the world. See you there, and congrats on acceptance.
It was those type of comments that always made it very difficult not to lose your bearing and laugh. That's some funny shiite. All that stuff seems so long ago. Definitely the best shape of my life during those times though. I do miss that.
goosegagnon2
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Yes, I understand the logic of what you are saying, but gas stations hold numerous things broke college kids want, mainly food, beer, and protection devices used for sexual intercourse. Many of the students here do not have cars. Sorry for the confusion.
I am not prior, but wished I was in some ways. You will have a leg up on things. From what I have been told OCS will be 2 times harder phyiscally, but half as mentally challenging as boot. If you were a prior in my unit and preformed well or to standard; you were good to go. Conversely if you were a prior and sucked, they rode you harder than anyone else. Double edged sword in
some ways.
I guess I'll just add another thing I thought of while I was there; it just came to mind. Being right next to HMX-1 and seeing them fly in everyday was a hard experience to go through. Seeing that one of my goals is to be a naval aviator and seeing them fly everyday was hard. Seeing the end result from the begining of the long process was tough. I'm still a good 6 years away from all of that and watching them fly was kinda like..man I wish I was up there right now. For most Air guys I met OCS it was all about flying jets or some type of "cool" aircraft. For myself, I would have given anything to just RIDE in one of those babies, for whatever was flying out of the field be it a Phrog, CH-53, SH-60, or Cobra. Anywho, just something I was thinking about while I was there...I guess perspective is different on the short end, hopefully I'll keep that in mind one I start training.
Birds of motivation
Yeah the most motivating thing was seeing the birds fly overhead (53's, 60's or 46's), even the AF's C-141 re-supply everyday or the guys doing IFS in the Cessna 172's. It made what I was going through all the more worth it. Pure motivation!!!!
Jzab C/2
Yeah the most motivating thing was seeing the birds fly overhead (53's, 60's or 46's), even the AF's C-141 re-supply everyday or the guys doing IFS in the Cessna 172's. It made what I was going through all the more worth it. Pure motivation!!!!
Jzab C/2
TheFurr7198
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congrats on making it through juniors but just go ahead and start preparing for seniors. Because if i had not of been in the shape i was in the injury i got during this past cycle(2nd increment) iw ould of been NPQ'd. There is no such thing as down time at seniors. Well the 8 hours of sleep but you are stillexpected to have everything done that is suppose to be done( uniforms etc.). The hardest part mentally besides fighting to stay awake late at night when youve only had 3 hours of sleep the two nights prior total is coming back across the rail road tracks. The sleep thing was kind of elimnated about the 2nd week because of some weak candidate who got a 110 heat case. He was dropped anyways during the cycle. Just be in shape, it'll be really worth it when you get done. Oh yeah and Echo company tookthe field meet and we had a female platoon.
P.S. Operation Save A Hoe is a Go.
P.S. Operation Save A Hoe is a Go.
If you are talking about a candidate from Golf Company, then go fornicate yourself.
That 110 heat case was a outstanding Marine Staff NCO, who will be back next year. I would like to see you hang with that "weak candidate."
Zilch: After the second week they instituted an "8 hours" of sleep a night policy, where you were not allowed to be up doing anything after lights out and couldn't get out of the rack except to make headcalls. Firewatch notwithstanding of course.
It wasn't as a result of any one person, it was a result of overloading medical during every PT session because of a heat wave that hit.
Our company also had the 2nd liberty cancelled because we lost over 25% of our company during the 9-mile hike/SULE II evolution.
This is nothing new, we had the same poicies in 93 and 95, not a good thing to be caught out ironing cammies in the head, even worse to try and hide-good bye integrity violator.
How did you lose 1/4 of the Company on a 9 mile hump? I hope noone was surprised about the libo getting secured.
goosegagnon2
Member
They said on graduation week that the during this increment they had the hottest 3 or 4 day period in like 70 or something year...if I remebered that correctly...but something to that effect.
TheFurr7198
Registered User
Just going off of what my sgt. instructor told us. Well I wish him the best of luck coming back, but I do know that I never fell out from a heat case, and we were in the same freaking heat as all the other companies. Being a SNCO is freakin outstanding but as SSGT. F. "said that doesnt mean shibopi at OCS." You dont forget where you came from and let your experience help you through it but you are a candidate now trying to be a officer. So being a prior is freakin outstanding but you leave the chevrons across the railroad tracks.
We lost ~26 on the hump. By the 1st stop (3 mile marker) we had to stop for an hour because we didn't have any medical support left.
People were going down with low temps, but I think a big part of it was Hyponutrimia. We had people in our platoon STARTING the hike w/ it. (I was the Plt Sgt. for all this, so telling everyone who felt sick to "Drink more water" was actually making it worse for some)
Maybe there were some malingerers, but for the most part, the people getting medevac'd weren't exactly volunteering for it, so it isn't like people were just weak minded or something. Most of them were being called out by someone else, the corpsman, or the staff.
I was wondering why I saw a bunch of people marching around during that weekend. That kinda blows. Our first libo we didnt get released until like 7:30pm but we never had one pulled. I was at medical that morning that all those heat cases happened and they pulled all PT. I was waiting for my x-ray stuff to get back and all the docs and corpsman kept running out every 5 minutes for new heat cases. I couldnt believe how many there were. Lets just say it took like 3.5 hours that day in medical to get out.
Well I can tell from your vast experience in the Marine Corps and ability to make assumptions based on what you heard that you are certainly in a place to comment on the fitness of that particular Staff Sergeant.
Your "SSGT F" sure did nail it on the head. I guess my buddy just "forgot where he came from" when he went down with a 110 temp.
Sorry for the threadjacking, but your bad mouthing a SNCO with almost 10 years in the Corps because of random rumors you heard while at OCS is really pissing me the hell off...
TheFurr7198
Registered User
alright dude
goosegagnon2
Member
Alright Huey, just because a Marine has 10 years of experience in the Marines doesn't exactly mean that he knows the in and out of the heat conditions of his candidates.
Lil Fizz, a little more tact and less emotion might have been wise. I'm not to going to lie, yeah, I am a 20 year old college student with no prior experience or anytime on active duty....but you know that one saying..."if it walks like a duck" You don't lose that instinct in training either. There were plenty of things I saw in the back ground of OCS that I KNEW would not fly if certian people found out about them.
With that being said, there IS a standard phyiscally and mentally at OCS...if you can't meet that standard...your weak; whether it's Prior NCO, Joe-Blow College student, or General's son...weakness knows NO boundries.