sTUPID qUESTIONS aBOUT ocs

[Sonog]

What is your OCS date?
No matter what, you will get really accustomed to eating rice and potatoes. Every flippin' day.
As far as beverages go, you're pretty limited to water, gatorade/powerade, and milk for the first couple months. Not sure which month you're not allowed dairy . . . I've never heard that. In fact, the OC regulations state that milk will be available at every meal (not necessarily the case if they run out).
Everyone is encouraged to purchase daily multivitamins, but beyond that I suppose it would depend on your class team.
You can write special request chits for just about anything- especially if you have a legitimate medical issue and/or prescription.
Hope that answers your questions. PM if you have more.

Funny story about the chow hall powerade. So when I was a candio, the class team required that every IC get one glass of powerade and one glass of water at every meal. Also, it was part of eating by the numbers to completely finish all of their fluids. One meal several IC's get up with the usual "Sir, this IC requests permission to speak to a candidate officer! This IC cannot drink this powerade!" So I tell the first couple basically to suck it up and finish their fluids. After the 3rd or 4th denial I saw the rest of them getting smart and pouring their powerades into their fruit/salad bowls. I also noticed the "powerade" bowls were filled with a deep, dark blue/green fluid. The light blue powerade mixture apparently was very heavy on the syrup that day.

 

[Mr Spenz]

As has been said, they'll accommodate most dietary needs once you get the proper chit, whether it's for gluten intolerance, religious beliefs, etc. Let the candios know as soon as you can, maybe they can make arrangements to get you some more appropriate meals instead of those box lunches (AKA "bag nasties"), which are basically exactly as 44magnum described. If not, you'll be eating nothing but the cold cuts from the sandwiches and an apple for quite a few meals that first week. Although I'm sure apples won't be in short supply. In the same vein, if it's something medical, let your class team know, they might allow you some supplements. Their first priority is your safety. However hard that may be to believe when you're gasping for breath in the SUYA.

Just saw the word "probiotics." Don't worry, they have plenty of that Jamie Lee Curtis yogurt in the chow hall.

They don't go to the SUYA anymore lol! Come on OCS dwindled down.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

They don't go to the SUYA anymore lol! Come on OCS dwindled down.

Whaaaaat? That's stupid. It's looking more and more like ODS every day.

 

[Lasoiree]

Funny story about the chow hall powerade. So when I was a candio, the class team required that every IC get one glass of powerade and one glass of water at every meal. Also, it was part of eating by the numbers to completely finish all of their fluids. One meal several IC's get up with the usual "Sir, this IC requests permission to speak to a candidate officer! This IC cannot drink this powerade!" So I tell the first couple basically to suck it up and finish their fluids. After the 3rd or 4th denial I saw the rest of them getting smart and pouring their powerades into their fruit/salad bowls. I also noticed the "powerade" bowls were filled with a deep, dark blue/green fluid. The light blue powerade mixture apparently was very heavy on the syrup that day.

Thank you Mbizzle Magnum and Tycho for the information. Your answers are exactly what I wanted to know. Sonog your OCS story made me laugh...

I don't have any "real" medical needs or prescriptions, it's a health preference which is very important to me and has caused me more stress thinking how to go without it (my herbal teas, daily supplements and vitamins, gluten free meals) than anything else (lack of sleep and privacy, getting yelled at by DR, stress and PT). I know how silly it sounds but there you have it. My biggest OCS fears.

 

[MBizzle]

The light blue powerade mixture apparently was very heavy on the syrup that day.

Wow, you said it. Some days the powerade was so syrupy it was like guzzling down pure powder. I felt so sick after force-choking the whole glass: I learned very quickly to dilute powerade/gatorate no matter what, with half water.
Some bold OCs tried combining half gatorade with carbonated water (the "soda" tab), which wasn't bad, essentially poor man's Mountain Dew.

 

[BackOrdered]

I don't have any "real" medical needs or prescriptions, it's a health preference which is very important to me and has caused me more stress thinking how to go without it (my herbal teas, daily supplements and vitamins, gluten free meals) than anything else (lack of sleep and privacy, getting yelled at by DR, stress and PT). I know how silly it sounds but there you have it. My biggest OCS fears.

Well you sure picked the right community if food preferences is important.

 

[Lasoiree]

Well you sure picked the right community if food preferences is important.

Yes you are right, although I have yet to see how much control a suppo gets over food selection and suppliers. Contracts with best price or value I suppose?

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Yes you are right, although I have yet to see how much control a suppo gets over food selection and suppliers. Contracts with best price or value I suppose?

This is the US Gov't, so cheapest is the way they go, quality not so much, this leads to what I have seen over and over again which is Supply officers getting walked over time and time again.

 

[Lasoiree]

This is the US Gov't, so cheapest is the way they go, quality not so much, this leads to what I have seen over and over again which is Supply officers getting walked over time and time again.

That's a shame. I'll do my best when I go in but "cheapest is best" is what I've heard as well.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

That's a shame. I'll do my best when I go in but "cheapest is best" is what I've heard as well.

and when an item is listed as "required on board" don't be the Supply officer that authorizes it to be removed from the ship, that led to us supporting combat operations with only one functional reactor until the part could be FEDEX'd from Pittsburgh, pretty sure that guys career was pretty well derailed.

 

[Lasoiree]

That seems like common sense, I wonder what his logic behind that choice could have been. I'll be sure to keep the required items on board, on board. Well all of this assuming I pass OCS without teas and supplements that is. Hah. Happy New Year!

 

[BackOrdered]

Yes you are right, although I have yet to see how much control a suppo gets over food selection and suppliers. Contracts with best price or value I suppose?

You can make stuff from scratch if you and your CSs are savvy enough, but that's as good as it gets.

 

[croakerfish]

They don't go to the SUYA anymore lol! Come on OCS dwindled down.

Please tell me you are not serious.

 

[AaronJB]

Please tell me you are not serious.

It's true, the SUYA went away when they tore down old Nimitz and leveled all the terrain that it stood on this summer/fall. The only sand that is currently available for class teams to have fun with is the Rose Garden. I would say that they definitely make up for the lack of the SUYA... The Rose Garden gets plenty of visits. The Cookie Jar still exists but has been abandoned for some time. It was overgrown with grass and weeds the last I checked.

 

[croakerfish]

It's true, the SUYA went away when they tore down old Nimitz and leveled all the terrain that it stood on this summer/fall. The only sand that is currently available for class teams to have fun with is the Rose Garden. I would say that they definitely make up for the lack of the SUYA... The Rose Garden gets plenty of visits. The Cookie Jar still exists but has been abandoned for some time. It was overgrown with grass and weeds the last I checked.

As long as there's still a sand pit to kick each other in the teeth it's all good!