At OCS, you wear black shoes and boots. You won't "earn" leather brown boots until you pass the preflight academic syllabus, and earn your flight suit. Even so, I wear black socks with the brown flight boots. Most people do, it seems. Either way, though, small potatoes- not really an issue.
I would assume you would just do an absentee ballot, but anyone, feel free to correct me. I don’t even have an OCS date yet, but that’s what I thought I’d be doing.
I’m in ROM right now. You check in in the morning and they send you straight to your room, which is on base and not at the hotel, and you keep everything with. You can pretty much bring whatever you want for ROM and then will dump it all once you officially start. Food is not great so definitely bring snacks. You don’t have a fridge or microwave like I was previously told. Once you start ROM you can recieve mail so you can order stuff from amazon in case you forgot to buy something. You PT twice a day depending on weather and the PRT is after you finish with ROM. They literally Check off your name, you sign a few papers, and go straight to your room. Super easy, pretty boring though.
Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply and the information! Do you recommend over packing for ROM and then just throwing everything in my car (I’ll be driving up) when training starts?
I don’t think you will get a change to go back to your vehicle. You do laundry every three days so I would bring like 6-8 pairs of workout clothes because you PT twice a day, so you go through a decent amount in those few days. But you really just need bare minimum for ROM.
Yes, they do.
You get to PT in the morning and evening for one hour each time. Everyday, weather depending.
To add to that, you do your own thing while at PT, though lately they've been running them through the Navy warm ups and cool downs at the beginning and end.
Is there a track to get a good run in?