Well I'll disagree, specifically prior navy reservists certainly do not need to attend ODS, so in my opinion it isn't the 'right thing to do,' in fact, it is a waste of tax dollars and time. I think a little bit of critical thinking instead of blanket mentality would show DCOIC is more than adequate for people who meet some type of TIS and are reservists. Having just finished ODS I have some relative insight, mostly stemming from sitting through countless hours of power points that brought zero new information. Having a few priors in the class with 70 new folks, while big navy may think this will automatically harbor some type of mentoring culture, the reality is that isn't the case, it wasn't with my class nor with the 3 classes ahead of mine. Fresh out of school kids (RNs/Docs/JAGs/etc) have a different outlook and should all benefit from going through the stuff together as new accessions, other service priors make sense to attend to get adjusted to the culture, but at the end of the day, there was truly zero benefit for the handful of us who had 10+ years in the navy and were reservists to attend ODS. While this post may present some type of bitter tone, there isn't really any better way to say what needs to be said. Additionally, with so much down time overall, often times it was hours between events with nothing to do (contrary to the overly used line of 'your schedule is so packed, it'll be a challenge to get it all done) during the course and having weekends off (2 days over 2 weekends post-ROM (4 days of waste), which, with COVID you cant leave the base anyways) the course is already a week longer than it could be.