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Chow Hall Protocol at OCS

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Sabre170

Sabre170

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What is the protocol of the chow hall during OCS? Is it the same for all of OCS, or do "Poppies" have a different protocol than Officer Candidate, and Candidate Officers?

I have see the video my recruiter had and was wondering if we have to eat like that the whole time.
 
Thisguy

Thisguy

Pain-in-the-dick
Poopies and Officer Candidates have the same procedures. You won't get to stop eating like that until you're a candidate officer.

Oh yeah, practice eating fast before you go to OCS.
 
virtu050

virtu050

P-8 Bubba
pilot
protocol you will learn... part of the fun is in the learning. hardest part for me was not the protocol but the massive amount of water i'd have to drink in a day. 4 glasses at each meal + 3 canteens throughout the day. if you ever told me before that i would be pissing simultaneously with 2 other dudes in the same urinal because we only have a minute to do our business i would've said you were smoking something. want to practice chow hall? try eating a hamburger and a chicken leg with a spoon.
 
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EngineGirl

Sleepy Head
virtu050 said:
protocol you will learn... part of the fun is in the learning. hardest part for me was not the protocol but the massive amount of water i'd have to drink in a day. 4 glasses at each meal + 3 canteens throughout the day. .
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Thats crazy!!! So I assume all we do all day is piss! Gees...how often do we get to go to the bathroom? Do we get head calls alot or can we ask for them if we need it?
 
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jwgross

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Best OCS gouge ever:

"SIR, INDOCTRINATION CANDIDATE BLAH, INDOCTRINATION CLASS (your class #) REQUESTS PERMISSION TO SPEAK TO CLASS DRILL INSTRUCTOR, GUNNERY SERGEANT (whatever), UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!"

then he (or maybe she, mine was a she) says, "WHAT!!"

and you say,

"SIR (MA'AM if it's Murphy!! Oh ****, don't make that mistake!) THIS INDOCTRINATION CANDIDATE REQUESTS AN EMERGENCY HEAD CALL!"

This will save your life. Or at least, your poopie suit.
 
Thisguy

Thisguy

Pain-in-the-dick
Speaking of head calls, if you don't have a bowel movement the first couple of days, don't worry it's normal. And during indoc week, you probably won't have time to drop a deuce during the head calls, so you'll have to resort to what I did, waiting till after taps so I could relax. :) Ah...memories...
 
virtu050

virtu050

P-8 Bubba
pilot
i remember sitting in the GTX classroom about to hear some brief on something useless and I had to go sooo bad. i requested the "emergency head call" in the above stated fashion and the class chief made me get up and walk out making siren noises twirling my arms because it was an "emergency". i almost wet myself.
 
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EngineGirl

Sleepy Head
virtu050 said:
i remember sitting in the GTX classroom about to hear some brief on something useless and I had to go sooo bad. i requested the "emergency head call" in the above stated fashion and the class chief made me get up and walk out making siren noises twirling my arms because it was an "emergency". i almost wet myself.
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God I can't wait until OCS. *sigh*
 
Sabre170

Sabre170

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At recruit training, we were told there is no such thing as an emergency head call. Everything, no matter how bad you have to go, is just a head call. That never helped the poor recruit that could not wake up at night and the DIs loved to make him stretch and touch his toes before they would let him go to the head.
 
Kycntryboy

Kycntryboy

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pilot
virtu050 said:
made me get up and walk out making siren noises twirling my arms because it was an "emergency". i almost wet myself.
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WHHAAHAHAHA I can picture that, how many people was that in front of??
 
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notsomuch

Registered User
Don't be too nervous about requesting an emergency head call, they _have_ to let you go. A guy in my class requested three times to go before our class Master Chief let him -- then he couldn't because he'd been holding it so long. He ended up with a kidney issue. After that, we barely had to request permission to speak to get an emergency head call.

My class was also the first to get new poopy suits during indoc week because we stank so much.

Ah, good times.

As for chow hall procedures, it's a little different for secured and non-secured candidates, but not much. Practice eating with a spoon now, it'll help.
 
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SWOdogJon

Enlightened follower of the SWOness
Nothing like duck-walking out of the chowhall after being told to "get back!" about three million times.

"Our Arms are...."
"Straight, sir!"
 
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