I understand your concern. I'm a USMC OCC-196 grad and have spent the last two months getting back to my fitness level pre-OCS. Yes, my run time improved - a whole 20 seconds, but my strength levels dramatically fell off. In the big picture though, what is two months for a career? Not much in my opinion.
How the #$%^ would you know? Back in your hole junior. I understand that you "heard this"...but individual mileage may vary... You also have no idea how serious about strength training this guy is. If he is serious, he will lose muscle mass and strength...
As for making a name for yourself on the internet prior to OCS, it's bad. I know one DI who knew he had a Marine coming to his class. I wonder how he's doing with the special attention so far? DI's, Chiefs and Officers all enjoy scoping out the fresh meat.
Tom is saying that a falling leaf is not anything like a spin, unless you f*ck it up. WARNING: Application of spin recovery inputs when not in a steady state spin will further aggravate the out of control flight condition. What were we talking about again?
Um....it was a joke, why am I not as funny via posting as I am in person? I need to work on that:icon_mi_1
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You're both nerds. I agree. I have no experience with OCS, only USMC boot camp and USNA. So I personally wouldn't pass on second hand knowledges. I would say that my opinion is that it should be harder. Two different purposes - one is to make a basically trained Marine/Sailor. The other is to make/evaluate an officer to lead said Marines/Sailors. If it was easier, that wouldn't make sense now would it?
There is a small gym that I know of, but you have to have permission to use it. We were denied. You get plenty of PT time however...
You're right. I don't know. -1 for headwork. I should have prefaced it with a WARNING: SECONDHAND GOUGE. That was just gouge from almost all the priors I spoke with (Marine Corps and Navy priors). Our class was probably around 30%-40% priors and this seemed to be the consensus, but regardless, I shouldn't have made the claim as if I know. I'll go climb back in my hole now.
Not to defend Bogey, but the consensus in my OCS class among priors was indeed that OCS sucked more. One wannabe marine turned Navy SNA stated that Marine OCS was harder physically, but Navy OCS sucked more.
