OCS week by week

[blarged]

I know this is a bit old, but I suspect it is still a good representation. I was happy to find it and give it a 'quick' read.

http://www.heathalvarez.com/hobbies/ocs.html

At the very bottom of the page there are updates from 2006. Of course now that it isn't down south anymore things might be a little more different. BUT... take it for what its worth, good for someone like me who considers themselves rather clueless.

 

[CommodoreMid]

Giving a preemptive "This has been discussed ad nauseum on AW."

But as I've never been to OCS, I'm also curious to know if anything has changed for my own personal edification.

 

[FLY_USMC]

Week 1-processing
Week 2-1 mile
Week 3-1.1 miles
Week 4-1.2 miles
Week 5-1.3 miles
Listen...we get the hint

 

[BackOrdered]

Giving a preemptive "This has been discussed ad nauseum on AW."

But as I've never been to OCS, I'm also curious to know if anything has changed for my own personal edification.

I'd just PM on of the recently graduated posters. They've been pretty helpful.

 

[Tom]

OCS has changed a lot, but is still the same (if that makes any sense). The same type of stuff gets accomplished, just in different manners. Specific things on their are no longer correct. You still do medical Monday, PFA Tuesday, etc. RLP is now on the Thursday of week 4. There was another RLP in week 8 but that got removed. Chow hall is now relaxing (relatively).

Reading the document would be helpful to get an understanding of what OCS is like. Don't expect to know down to the day what is going to happen to you though. I could write a similar document that wouldn't do any better than the existing one because OCS is still changing while the staff greases up the machine. OCS got easier in some manners with the move up to Newport, but it is still very difficult and challenging.

Some up in shape, play the game, yell loud and move fast.

 

[Morgan81]

LT Alvarez's site is very helpful to get a quick overview of what to expect. Don't bank on anything being 100% correct however and to be honest, you don't need it to be. Just use it as a way to introduce yourself to what would be ahead of you.
Like Tom was saying, just shut up and do what you're told as quickly and as loudly as humanly possible and you'll be fine...eventually.

 

[xmid]

Those websites are pretty outdated. As said before just use them for a basic idea of what is going to happen ie. they are going to yell at you and make you push... but if you didn't know that already you're in for trouble... Alot of things are primarily dependent on your DI. With some DI's week 8 still closely resembles week 2 as far as the suck factor. There are alot of things that are still getting worked out up here.

 

[BACONATOR]

I read Heath Alvarez's website at least 10 times before OCS, and let me tell you: It DID NOT HELP. While things had changed a bit from the time he went through OCS, it did provide me with a VERY accurate portrayal of what to expect. However, reading about what goes on at OCS and living it are two COMPLETELY different things. That's like reading about how to drive or reading about how to ride a horse and then doing it. You CAN NOT prepare yourself for OCS by reading about it. I was just as clusterfucked at OCS as any person who was clueless as to what was going on. If anything, you are more apprehensive knowing what evolutions are coming instead of just going with it, putting your best effort out and letting the chips fall where they may. Just ignore these journals, go drink more, go PT afterward and embrace the suck. Every day you make it through OCS is 90 days minus 1 more to ENS-ville.

 

[Godspeed]

Let me give you all the updated version, or my version:

Week 1: Start off in Pensacola. Have your feelings hurt by all those big bad candios calling you names. Get beat by DI. Get killed at Black Saturday. Hydrate and have to piss yourself frequently.

Week 2: More killing by DI. More having to piss oneself.

Week 3: Fail RLP because you didn't memorize leadership traits.

Week 4: Re fail RLP because you argued with the drill instructor about dirt in your locker (DUMBASS). Roll to class 20.

Week 5: Catch bronchitus and pink eye simultaneously. Bear crawl and star jump from the PT field to the chow hall (courtesy of Gysgt Walters).

Week 6: Catch mononucleosis. Roll to H to find out that you are THE only person in H left in Pensacola. Do absolutely nothing and announce yourself as "H class" as you march into chow. Become bored and borderline mentally insane for 2 weeks. Decide to sneak some hotsauce onto your food at chow to entertain oneself. Be caught by Senior Chief. Be forced to douse all food in hot sauce and eat, including gatorade. Earn nickname "officer candidate hot sauce" and be forced to carry hot sauce everywhere in place of canteen; to chow, to the head, into the shower, to class.

Week 7: Get sent to beautiful RI. Upon reporting, be told you have to start over at the very beginning.

Week 8-20: Repeat a colder version of the above.

:-D Good times.

 

[badger16]

Let me give you all the updated version, or my version:

Week 1: Start off in Pensacola. Have your feelings hurt by all those big bad candios calling you names. Get beat by DI. Get killed at Black Saturday. Hydrate and have to piss yourself frequently.

Week 2: More killing by DI. More having to piss oneself.

Week 3: Fail RLP because you didn't memorize leadership traits.

Week 4: Re fail RLP because you argued with the drill instructor about dirt in your locker (DUMBASS). Roll to class 20.

Week 5: Catch bronchitus and pink eye simultaneously. Bear crawl and star jump from the PT field to the chow hall (courtesy of Gysgt Walters).

Week 6: Catch mononucleosis. Roll to H to find out that you are THE only person in H left in Pensacola. Do absolutely nothing and announce yourself as "H class" as you march into chow. Become bored and borderline mentally insane for 2 weeks. Decide to sneak some hotsauce onto your food at chow to entertain oneself. Be caught by Senior Chief Quarles. Be forced to douse all food in hot sauce and eat, including gatorade. Earn nickname "officer candidate hot sauce" and be forced to carry hot sauce everywhere in place of canteen; to chow, to the head, into the shower, to class.

Week 7: Get sent to beautiful RI. Upon reporting, be told you have to start over at the very beginning.

Week 8-20: Repeat a colder version of the above.

:-D Good times.

Wow...that sounds like a lot of FUN!!!! ( I hope you are getting my E- sarcasm!)

 

[BACONATOR]

Let me give you all the updated version, or my version:

Week 1: Start off in Pensacola. Have your feelings hurt by all those big bad candios calling you names. Get beat by DI. Get killed at Black Saturday. Hydrate and have to piss yourself frequently.

Week 2: More killing by DI. More having to piss oneself.

Week 3: Fail RLP because you didn't memorize leadership traits.

Week 4: Re fail RLP because you argued with the drill instructor about dirt in your locker (DUMBASS). Roll to class 20.

Week 5: Catch bronchitus and pink eye simultaneously. Bear crawl and star jump from the PT field to the chow hall (courtesy of Gysgt Walters).

Week 6: Catch mononucleosis. Roll to H to find out that you are THE only person in H left in Pensacola. Do absolutely nothing and announce yourself as "H class" as you march into chow. Become bored and borderline mentally insane for 2 weeks. Decide to sneak some hotsauce onto your food at chow to entertain oneself. Be caught by Senior Chief. Be forced to douse all food in hot sauce and eat, including gatorade. Earn nickname "officer candidate hot sauce" and be forced to carry hot sauce everywhere in place of canteen; to chow, to the head, into the shower, to class.

Week 7: Get sent to beautiful RI. Upon reporting, be told you have to start over at the very beginning.

Week 8-20: Repeat a colder version of the above.

:-D Good times.

Quit your bitching......Ensign. :icon_wink

 

[Morgan81]

Quit your bitching......Ensign. :icon_wink

Thats, Ensign Hotsauce.

 

[puck_11]

Week 5: Catch bronchitus and pink eye simultaneously. Bear crawl and star jump from the PT field to the chow hall (courtesy of Gysgt Walters).

Wow dude, almost 6 months at OCS....that sucks good on you for sticking with it, but since you were BDCP not much choice I guess. I also had the privilege of bear crawling with all sorts of fun exercises mixed in from the PT field to the chow hall. For those that don't know, thats about 1/3 of a mile, not easy after an early OCS PT session, and especially not easy when you have a DI giving you special personal attention. After I graduated he said he picked me for no good reason, and then after I put up with that, he never gave me any shit again. So the lesson is if you're getting thrashed like that, and you don't give them any reason to do it again, they'll find someone else.

 

[puck_11]

Oh and for those that are wondering about Marine OCS vs Navy OCS, we had a guy in the class behind us that went all the way through Marine OCS, they were going to make him go JAG since he had been through law school, didn't want to do that so he denied his commission. Came back through Navy OCS two years later for spec war. His response to this question, Marine OCS is harder, but Navy OCS sucks more.

 

[Wingnut]

On guy in the class I started with was (as I recall) around a week from graduating Marine OCS when he broke his leg, which washed him out. I guess I never really asked him about that one. I understand that one of the other class DIs was one of his DIs at Marine OCS. Anyway, one of my graduating classmates was within days of our commissioning date being six months from when she reported, I think she had trouble with shin splints. Be careful about trying to push through shin splints, one guy who was with the candi-O class when I reported had stress fractures that had developed and he was there well after I graduated (on the other hand, by holding out until candi-O phase he had it quite a bit easier; each case varies, of course). Funny thing about the girl in our class was that it wasn't long before she know more than the candi-Os, and sometimes MasterGuns (awesome guy, retrospectively, I'm sort of glad I had a little time in H with him) would come to her first when something needed to be taken care of. As an aside on H classers, listen to them, take their advice with a grain of salt, but do know that they're likely to know more of what they're talking about. Some of them have attitude problems, sometimes that's why they were in H, but they can save you a lot of time and trouble. In every class there are always some who think they have things figured out for themselves and don't want to take advice. With that attitude you'd better be right; more likely you'll be learning some lessons the hard way.
Finally, I don't remember ever having to bear crawl, duck walk, or anything like that to the chow hall. No sir, gunny Carson always marched us there. Now, early on it seemed like we had a lot of little detours, I think there were couple days where we eyed just about every inch of grass between the PT field and chow hall up close. I think he could have found ways to stretch the trip so we'd have arrived just in time for lunch if he'd wanted (he had a way of doing that, took him forever just to show us through the battalions that first Saturday).