Eating by the numbers is gone, and there were a bunch of other changes on the horizon when I left. New CO and all that.
I heard you can't blast kids before welcome to the regiment (we were the last class that did), we weren't allowed to go above a speaking voice with our Indocs, and you have to give them ample time in the morning for wake up / getting dressed. No more screaming and beating on doors.
You get candi-o billets in the last few weeks of OCS, when your companies enter 'candidate officer phase.' This is arguably the hardest part of OCS in which to be a leader, because everyone is now fairly secure/not scared about OCS any more. And they see the finish line (aka, drop the pack). People who have never been in the military, and some who have, just can't stand being told what to do by their peers. So they don't. Or they do, complaining and whining all the way. The attitude gets infectious and by the end you just want to punch people in the face. The motivators and hard workers get crapped on with all the work, the slackers generally hide from duties and (*#& off.
This is 100% true. There were maybe six people in my class that did 90% of the work in Candio phase. Of those, half were prior enlisted. The other half were people that came out of H-Class. It was absolute hell. I got less sleep as a Candio in 3 weeks then I did as an indoc in any one week. Add on it, that these guys pulling everyone else along? They got shit on, one and all, by most of the class team. They got more RPT / Demerits, chewed out more, and generally fucked with more than the people who skated.
SWO, Reg Adj, Reg Sub Comm and Indoc Comms got absolutely fucking wrecked even when everyone else was on liberty. As true today as it was three years ago.
