OCS week by week

[BACONATOR]

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).

I don't know when you went through OCS or if this is the same girl, but there was a girl who graduated in our class who had been there just shy of 8 months for shin splints and stress fractures.

Needless to say, her nickname was "The Ocho".

Also, there was a guy who snapped his leg on the out-PRT after fighting through shin splints. He officially became a candio at that point and waited out graduation. He stayed in pcola until he healed after commissioning. Sometimes people risk their health/safety with a prudent decision. Possibly injure yourself and end the suck, or hold out in medical and possibly roll/continue the suck.

And yes, it was uncanny how the Gunny's (And a very special SSGT) could time our crab walking/bear crawling/star jumping from the PT field to chow so we would show up JUST on time....amazing!

 

[Spekkio]

I read that site the other day. The takeaway? OCS is going to suck horribly. Just grit my teeth and get through it.

But I knew that already.

 

[skim]

Here is a video of class 02-08 which shows what the current living situation is like in sunny Newport. Im looking forward to it

 

[red_ryder]

Awesome, I can't wait.

 

[Nose]

Honor Class? Impressive.

What percentage of them will get jets?

Couple of questions for recent grads from an old guy:

I was told that there is no more running in formation. True? If you do, do you still sing Jodies?

Are all the folks in that vid that are wearing Smokey Bears and Cammies Marines, or do the CPOs also dress like that?

Thanks. Nose

 

[Nose]

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.

I love it! That is a great story.

A bunch of us got caught in AOCS with M&M's in our lockers. This was about week 9 (after we lost our "secured" status for the rest of AOCS due to low RLP score - we kind of said "Screw it, what are they gonna do PT us?") and our DI was PISSED. For the next 4 days, all we could eat was Ice Cream and All we could drink was Coke. I have never felt so gross in my life!

 

[Tom]

Honor Class? Impressive.

What percentage of them will get jets?

Couple of questions for recent grads from an old guy:

I was told that there is no more running in formation. True? If you do, do you still sing Jodies?

Are all the folks in that vid that are wearing Smokey Bears and Cammies Marines, or do the CPOs also dress like that?

Thanks. Nose

1. Thanks.

2. 42%.

3. False, most PT runs are in formation. Once and a while there would be a 3 mile run where everyone would run their own pace. PT has running groups broken down by ability. We still sing and the content usually involves killing people, fighting or more PT.

4. Only the Marine Class Drill Instructors wear the hats and cammies or PT gear. Class Chiefs and Officers wear khakis or PT gear.

The Hi-Moms is a final dinner with family and staff the night before graduation. That was the slide show and it cuts off early. Try searching for the video broken down into two part. There is also drill competition and graduation for anyone who wants to see some snippets of what OCS appears to be from the outside.

 

[Tom]

Sounds awesome. I saw a DI tell a guy to moonwalk during a RPT session.

 

[Kickflip89]

Honor Class? Impressive.

What percentage of them will get jets?

Couple of questions for recent grads from an old guy:

I was told that there is no more running in formation. True? If you do, do you still sing Jodies?

Are all the folks in that vid that are wearing Smokey Bears and Cammies Marines, or do the CPOs also dress like that?

Thanks. Nose

We don't sing Jodies during the runs. The runs are basically either 1.5 miles or 2.3 miles of running as fast as you possibly can, with a DI, chief, or class officer setting the pace.

HOWEVER, the first thing we would do every single morning is have every class double time a warm-up lap of about 1/4 mile with a DI singing the cadence of their choosing. We'd also usually double time to Chow after PT and do some cadences, which was an easy way to get thrown in the grass, since no one had enough wind to sound off after PT for the first few weeks.

 

[xmid]

Honor Class? Impressive.

Well... Not exactly... In order to be an honor class you are technically supposed to win the streamer in every category. 02-08 did not. However, after buying the staff copious amounts of Grey Goose Vodka and placing it in their offices at night they were "voted" an honor class by the staff. Smart? Sure, but not a real honor class. Anyone who actually gives two shits about being an honor class or brings it up after graduation is a tool anyways.

 

[Spekkio]

Here is a video of class 02-08 which shows what the current living situation is like in sunny Newport. Im looking forward to it

They should swap this video with the cheesy one they showed me at the NRD.

Question: How did you get those pictures taken? They got photographers at all the classes or something?

 

[Morgan81]

They should swap this video with the cheesy one they showed me at the NRD.

Question: How did you get those pictures taken? They got photographers at all the classes or something?

Candio's take them the first few weeks, but you can take your own cameras to firefighting.
Oh by the way xmid, an honor class is an honor class. There is no semi-honor class.

 

[Tom]

Well... Not exactly... In order to be an honor class you are technically supposed to win the streamer in every category. 02-08 did not. However, after buying the staff copious amounts of Grey Goose Vodka and placing it in their offices at night they were "voted" an honor class by the staff. Smart? Sure, but not a real honor class. Anyone who actually gives two shits about being an honor class or brings it up after graduation is a tool anyways.

If someone would have read their OCR they would have known there is more than one way to become an honor class. Sounds like someone is bitter...

 

[xmid]

Bitter? I could care less about being an honor class and I've said that since day one. Caring about it, or bragging about it after garduation makes you a tool.

 

[BigIron]

What's up with the go-fasters and the wash khakis?