sTUPID qUESTIONS aBOUT ocs

[dza1284]

I was thinking and came up with a few more questions:

1) What is the sleeping situation like? Is everyone in one large room or are they separated?

2) Are you woken up everyday? Can you get up a few minutes early to have more time to get ready?

3) I have begun to create a list of everything I need to bring and there is a good amount of stuff. What do you bring it in? Just try to squeeze everything into a bag or two?

4) What do they do for strength training? And why don't they do pullups? Every other branch that I have heard of do them.

Thanks.

 

[BACONATOR]

I was thinking and came up with a few more questions:

1) What is the sleeping situation like? Is everyone in one large room or are they separated?

2) Are you woken up everyday? Can you get up a few minutes early to have more time to get ready?

3) I have begun to create a list of everything I need to bring and there is a good amount of stuff. What do you bring it in? Just try to squeeze everything into a bag or two?

4) What do they do for strength training? And why don't they do pullups? Every other branch that I have heard of do them.

Thanks.

1. Not 100% about newport but I think they are like we were after week one: 4 per room in dorm-style rooms.

2. Yes. The "wakeup" is lots of fun.... you WILL be waking up early to prepare yourself for the day. If not... you're probably wrong. You'll see what is necessary when you get there.

3. Bring it in whatever it fits in. I remember they had us dump all of the allowable items into a garbage bag they provided for each of us to bring into OCS with us and put our bags back in our cars.

4. They do plenty of strength training, usually alternating run days and sprint/strength training days, not to mention all the "beatings" (remedial PT) you'll be doing which will involve some miserably painful bodyweight exercise(s). You WILL do pullups eventually at PT as probably part of a circuit. At least we did.

 

[scottwith1t]

I was thinking and came up with a few more questions:

1) What is the sleeping situation like? Is everyone in one large room or are they separated?

2) Are you woken up everyday? Can you get up a few minutes early to have more time to get ready?

3) I have begun to create a list of everything I need to bring and there is a good amount of stuff. What do you bring it in? Just try to squeeze everything into a bag or two?

4) What do they do for strength training? And why don't they do pullups? Every other branch that I have heard of do them.

Thanks.

1) sleeping is 2 per room. the rooms are small. you have your own bed and storage area that can and MUST be locked at all times. indoc is no different as far as rooms are concerned. depending upon your DI you may or may not move around a lot, ie: switching rooms, changing roommates, etc etc. its part of the stress to move your entire room every few days. most always the female rooms are at the beginning of the hallway although i'm not sure if thats an actual rule or not.

2) it depends on your DI how you get woken up. for us, we got left alone for the most part after about week 3 or 4 ... some classes were woken up by their DI every day they were at OCS except for sundays, and even sundays wern't always safe. generally you'll set your watch alarm for like 20 minutes prior to wakeup so you can change into your nasty set of PT gear, put on your glowbelt, and down a canteen of water and an ibuprofren if you have some.

3) bring what you can, what people say here. you'll dump it and transfer it into a plastic bag to take inside and put the stuff you can't take back into your car.

4) there were pull up bars in the kill zone but we were specifically told they were off limits. they had pullup bars out side but they kinda sorta got destroyed when a DI told his entire class to get on them all at once. comical however the pullup bars were pretty badly bent. basically you'll alternate between run days and strength training. lunges across the PT field repeatedly is no fun... no fun at all... although my favorite was "the first 4 who make it back after running around the baseball diamond don't have to do it again -- BEGIN!"

 

[dza1284]

What about swimming? Is it necessary to be practicing or is something that can be picked up pretty reasonably? Do you swim a lot?

 

[skiptomahlouie]

SNA guarantee before OCS?

Hey guys, I was wondering if you get an aviation spot guaranteed before Navy OCS or is it based on your rankings during Navy OCS? I was just wondering because I know the Marine Corps does guarantee, and they claim that they are the only branch that guarantees an aviation slot in any branch of the military. Yet, I've seen forums where people apply specifically for an aviation spot in the Navy.

 

[nzachman]

You can have a flight guarantee in the Navy before going to OCS

 

[BACONATOR]

More importantly, you can't go to OCS WITHOUT a guaranteed designator. That's how the process works...

 

[scottwith1t]

What about swimming? Is it necessary to be practicing or is something that can be picked up pretty reasonably? Do you swim a lot?

don't even sweat swimming. we were in the pool a total of like 2 hours on one of the first few days -- i think it was thursday of indoc week. after that you don't even go into the pool building again unless you suck at swimming. if you do suck at swimming, you just go back for remediation during candi-o phase until you learn to swim.

the swim test is stupid simple, don't bother putting any thought into it.

 

[kat27]

I went to the OTC rhode island website and looked up the official docs we need for OCS. It doesn't say anything about college transcripts, but I could have sworn we need to bring those. Anyone?
thanks kat

 

[wink]

don't even sweat swimming. we were in the pool a total of like 2 hours on one of the first few days -- i think it was thursday of indoc week. after that you don't even go into the pool building again unless you suck at swimming. if you do suck at swimming, you just go back for remediation during candi-o phase until you learn to swim.

the swim test is stupid simple, don't bother putting any thought into it.

Just to be clear, that is for OCS proper. If you are an aviator type you will swim plenty. I guess that is all done at API now. dza hasn't said what his designator is going to be. But if you are not at least comfortable, or better still, strong, in the water, then you should work on it if you are an aviator type.

 

[blarged]

if you are not at least comfortable, or better still, strong, in the water.

woah woah woah... no one said anything about water when i signed up for this Navy gig :icon_wink

 

[scottwith1t]

Just to be clear, that is for OCS proper. If you are an aviator type you will swim plenty. I guess that is all done at API now. dza hasn't said what his designator is going to be. But if you are not at least comfortable, or better still, strong, in the water, then you should work on it if you are an aviator type.

yes, that is once you get to API -- but there is plenty of time once at API to get swimming down and if you don't get it they'll just hold you back till you do and work one on one.

swimming should be the least of anyone's concerns. you're in the pool for like an hour maybe two at OCS and then at API no one has trouble with the mile swim, even the guys who sank to the bottom the first day.

prior to OCS worry about getting run times down, maxing out pushups and situps.

 

[FDX]

When you apply you put down 3 choices....1st 2nd and 3rd. In my case I only applied for SNA and I was fortunate enough to get picked up. That being said...nothing is gauranteed. Be grateful for your opportunities everyday...even while going through OCS

 

[Uncle Fester]

Understand that there's "guaranteed" and then there's "guaranteed". If you go to OCS with a flight spot, you will begin flight training once you're commissioned, but that's assuming you run into no physical difficulties along the way. It's not a 100% ironclad promise. However, if for whatever reason you're not physically qualified for Air, you will have the option of leaving OCS or redesignating.

 

[revan1986]

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