Okay, I'll bite. How do you 'know' this?
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Quitting OCS?
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Okay, I'll bite. How do you 'know' this?
Correcting misapprehensions: just one of the services AW provides.
It's because, once you quit, it doesn't matter to the Navy if you go home in one week or five. There are other things with hard timelines. Ergo, it doesn't get done quickly.
Well, shit. Don't I look like the asshole? You're right, I should have thought about that.
After I finished the first day, I remember thinking, "They are going to have to kill me to get me out of here." I had already put so much effort into that first bit that I sure as hell wasn't going to quit.
We had one guy that tried to quit the first night we met our Drill Instructor. It was awesome drama. The DI rolled him into the next class just to give him two more weeks to think about it. But, sure enough, as soon as his new class finished their 4th week MTT (that's what they used to call the locker inspections) he was carrying his shit out the door.
At least he was commited to quitting. Gotta give him that.
Seriously? Before AW there was rec.aviation.military.naval, and even then there was the five minute movie the recruiters showed you with Gunny Irwin in his Smokey the Bear hat yelling at the camera and candidates running around everywhere and yelling back. If you had the most clueless recruiter in the history of recruiting, did none of your homework, never talked to anyone who ever served in the military, never in your life watched Officer and a Gentleman, Full Metal Jacket (except they don't actually hit you in real life, not nowadays...
), or any other basic training/boot camp movie, then maybe you'd be surprised by all the yelling, pushups, running, ironing your socks exactly a certain way, learning to march, and oh a few classes on Naval History and so on I will say that some people get there and realize they really aren't cut out for it or it's a lot harder than they expected. That's fine... at least they came out and tried and found out something about themselves they didn't know... Whatever makes each of us tick is always a little different from the next person and there are lots of ways to honorably serve your country.
A few still show up amazingly clueless. I don't know whether to laugh or take pity on them.
Yeah I saw an official Navy OCS video and I had to sign a paper that I've watched it, and I've talked to people who were in the military. The video looked like summer camp with some yelling, and the people generally just say "don't take it personally when they mess with you." I'm just saying, sleep deprivation, beatings, and a lot of the other stuff isn't made especially clear in the recruiting process because they don't want to scare you away.
Boomhower, I was just pointing out the other side, as I also worried about this before I applied for BDCP. I took your recent post as sarcastic and apologize if I came off as a douche; if it wasn't, my bad.
Anyway, my whole purpose was just to point out why he might be scared of a dishonorable discharge.
Don't sweat it. You called me on my bullshit and you were right. No douche-iness detected.
But, I was being a little sarcastic. I do that sometimes.
Fucking gay...
My sentiments, exactly.
I can see that. I think we're both saying almost the same thing as each other. I remember thinking to myself, "This really sucks! I expected this to suck, but still..." Most guys are pretty close to that.
I always thought it was funny when candidates phone home with a hoarse voice (makes Mom get worried to hear her baby sound like that). Funnier still is the use of certain new keywords in normal conversation, like "niner" instead of "nine," as if some sort of brainwashing is taking effect.
Then again I'm twisted
I can see that. I think we're both saying almost the same thing as each other. I remember thinking to myself, "This really sucks! I expected this to suck, but still..." Most guys are pretty close to that.
I always thought it was funny when candidates phone home with a hoarse voice (makes Mom get worried to hear her baby sound like that). Funnier still is the use of certain new keywords in normal conversation, like "niner" instead of "nine," as if some sort of brainwashing is taking effect.
Then again I'm twisted
Who the hell actually said "niner" at OCS? I don't recall ever hearing that.
The dumbest part was doing the counting during PT on non-running days.
" zero-1, zero-2, zero-3 ..." and so forth.
