For those who have looked deeply for information about life in the OCS fleet, there is very little material available. Most of the sites account with “OCS is not ready,” and “cannot be described as being there.”
Of course, these articles don’t explain exactly what the visceral meaning of words is actually like.
In this article I will begin my attempt to remedy his failure by listing some major issues:
-You missed the boat if you are at OCS. You missed the easy way to ROTC in college. You don’t have a drug, a nurse, or a law degree to do it in the sauce of experience that is ODS. You don’t have the right command from college if you graduated from university. If you wanted to be in the military so badly, chances are you’re already doing it.
Chances are, the economy is bad, the major isn’t for sale, school is too expensive and you’re long, restless and desperate. Don’t do it if these are your reasons.
To really put things in perspective: if you went to the navy reserve during or after college, you can get a direct commission at the DCO and get your commission on reserve acceptance and an easy two weeks of training where no one tries to cut you off.
– When you take one bite of food at Navy OCS, you must proceed through 8 discrete steps using only a spoon, regardless of what kind of food is on your plate. You would do this for the 8 week program until you become a complete zombie as you ‘eat by numbers’. You can’t move your head, you have to sit very straight, you can’t talk, you can’t make eye contact with anyone, your legs are pressed uncomfortably to the left of the table next to you. Three times a day every day for as long as a year, if you are unlucky. Is this what you have to do with life?
-To- Calling OCS a ‘school’ is a serious misnomer. There is nothing about academic training. The classes play a minor role quite well; There are just enough tests to see how compelling you are. It is not the purpose of the program to impart vocational or academic knowledge. It is not a school.
-Nothing in the OCS program will attempt much more than 4 hours of sleeping through the night. Sometimes less, if one sleeps.
-Your voice will scream at the top of your lungs so that you can hardly re. after the first days to talk Some voices never really seem to get back on track. They remain hard, rough, nose.
-Many people are visibly old at the end of their development. They have deep wrinkles on their face, some of them are gray due to chronic stress and they sleep. deprivation
-Physical fitness is a minor concern in the program. Until there is no debt, someone accepts the smallest needs. If you’re super fit and I don’t like you, there can always be no count on pushups. If you want to fail, you will fail.
For each PFA class entry, there will be a default number. Naval OCS operates through a very strict and controlled formula. They will see that the company never becomes rare.
The truth is that the program is un-athletically wild, about the shape of men. They pass because they play mental games, not because they can do pushups.
-Delay tests in OCS are completely subjective in practice. If your instructor doesn’t like the drill, you will never pass the 4th week inspection. RLP (room, locker, personnel) as it is called, exists to form an effective barrier beyond which inconveniences will never pass. No progress in OCS is worth much more than RLP has passed.
-Naval OCS is not a 3 month program. A minority of candidates graduate with their original class. Most of them will be there for 4, 5 or more months. Some take a year to graduate. Anyone who is ready for a real Navy OCS should not have to wait 3 months to do so. For they disagree against you.
-Naval OCS has nothing to do with the matter, judges. Those who are loud, brash, negative, and self-centered thrive in the program. When you are close to graduation, successfully convert new students.
-Naval OCS always results from people with permanent back and knee injuries. If this happens, you will be sent home. They have no use for you. Literally, as if a ‘broken body’, when at the base.
-The program sees if you can do the force and obey immediately whatever, but the means are mostly arbitrary. You don’t have to keep your composure to command a fleet near you, but to learn how to drill ships with marine shouts, a skill you’ll never use after OCS.
– If you don’t already enjoy things with the right valves, and keeping the living space in itself untainted, the system will be more difficult to graduate. A military tribune is not a good fit if you don’t actually enjoy rigid procedures and rules conforming to books. Your role is to be an obedient middle manager, not a thinker.
Especially at the beginning of the program there is no time. No one. All day, literally not one second. In the early days, he did not take the time of the mud. You will survive too much on the program taking care of the crap. You will be allowed to sleep for a few hours, you make the day relentless in your head, day after day you wake up the feeling as if there was no relief for a second. Many people experience living dreams around the program. Some people are forced to drop out because the anxiety prevents them from getting any sleep at all, until they finally collapse.
-Going through the OCS is not necessarily about being slow or proud. This is all the more the case, so that they seem to be able to give themselves entirely to any absurd demands of his authority. Personal pride is a disadvantage in the program, he must accept even the lowest of the low with obedience and respect. Your goal is to humble people humbler than yourself as you progress through the program.
-A DOR (on request) will not undermine your testimony to any significant degree. Even military jobs are still available.
In fact, many OCS dropouts are the first materials of other government agencies. The best thing you could do is to have the clearance fully processed: save you can save the installation a lot of trouble and many months of processing time. No one will care that you can make a perfect rack in the corners of the hospital.
– They lie to you in the program to escape you from DOR. If you drop, I will travel around you for 3 weeks to a month, so that you can consult yourself in full, but it is not bad because you can leave the base and have weekends. When you first cut out, it sends you to sign up to the chain of command. As you work your way up, some of them would say that you are a failure in life, and try to scare you into going on a mission. Candi-Os (students nearing graduation) are particularly likely to use these skills.
