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- Thread starter Lonestar155
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jagges84
Semper Gumby "Always Flexible"
Fixed sir. I admit it was nasty for a college grad
, but it was like 0200.MasterHaynes86
Registered User
i went in with some back pain. Jr year of HS I pulled several muscles in my back and never went to a doctor. I can't sleep on matresses or else it hurts like hell. It actually felt better after OCS and for the year following. First few weeks of OCS I had a good matress, but I lost it when we rotated bunks to fill in holes of NPQ and DOR people.
As for the thumb, I think you could make it through. A few of the combat-type runs where you run with your rifle might not be so comfy, but I think you could do it. I also think you will drop your rifle more so prepare for pushing for it...
And light duty candidates have it rough. I feel sorry for those people. Avoid it at all costs, even if you roll your ankle going up a hill and your boot is hard to remove at the end of the day...
If you go to light duty, they will fill your head with "you should go home" crap and if you believe them, say goodbye
As for the thumb, I think you could make it through. A few of the combat-type runs where you run with your rifle might not be so comfy, but I think you could do it. I also think you will drop your rifle more so prepare for pushing for it...
And light duty candidates have it rough. I feel sorry for those people. Avoid it at all costs, even if you roll your ankle going up a hill and your boot is hard to remove at the end of the day...
If you go to light duty, they will fill your head with "you should go home" crap and if you believe them, say goodbye
Before I got NPQ last summer we held our backs until I felt like my delts were torn.
Good point on drill.
That's not all he got...
It is fun to watch the SI's do "Manual of Crutch" with the Light Duties. Plus they don't have to go over the bridge. Worst part about light duty is that you are surrounded by extremely demotivated Candidates and a significant minority are faking injuries in hopes of going home early. Definitely not a place you want to hang out.
Semper Fi,
usmcecho4
Lonestar155
is good to go
You mean the highly intimidating bullet?
I hear you about light duty. One place I did not work my ass off for to get stuck there! In fact did enough research on the "Runners Knee" AKA "chondromalacia patella". They have specially designed bands to ease some of the pressure on the knee cap. Im going to pick one up now.
If you take it with you to OCS you'll need a chit from medical there. Even the guys with the funny plantar fasciitis socks needed chits to wear those things in the rack.
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I am a little confused at the number of people telling others to really hide their injuries. WHY?!?! Sure, it's decent and "manly" to hide some aches and pains, but if you're so hurt you can't hold a damn milk carton dontcha think you should get some #u@%ing help before you go do what is possibly the most physically demanding thing of your entire life? Not only is it demanding, but other people are also constantly screening and evaluating your performance and you only got one chance to make it work. Before you leave is the wrong time to "John Wayne" it. Better to hold off for an increment or even a year unless you either really believe you can make it, or you have a backup plan if you don't make it in the Corps. CYOA Devildog.
I went to OCS with a bad ITB tendon. It was painful before I left but I had never experienced ITB pain before so I kept quiet. During in-processing, one of the corporals ordered me to sprint to the head and retrieve some candidates, as I got up off my camp stool and turn my knee it delivered a severe jolt of pain up my right leg. It went downhill from there and by the grace of God I made it through the 6 week session. The absolute WORST pain I have ever felt in my life, it was up there on the pain scale with "dry sockets" after wisdom teeth. The injury was my fault as I trained to hard to fast with not enough stretching prior to ship.
I dont know what your injury is and I dont know the pain that you feel now about it. But my injury got very severe, they put steroids in my knees towards the end of the cycle. They told me that if I was doing the PLC-C program that I would have been NPQ. I will tell you that an injury can effect leadership HARDCORE because you cannot show weakness. But with an injury that is sometimes unavoidable, we are all human. I wish I had good advice to give you but I just dont know enough about you situation. So just know that you are running a higher risk of NPQ and a high risk of bad PT and leadership scores.
I dont know what your injury is and I dont know the pain that you feel now about it. But my injury got very severe, they put steroids in my knees towards the end of the cycle. They told me that if I was doing the PLC-C program that I would have been NPQ. I will tell you that an injury can effect leadership HARDCORE because you cannot show weakness. But with an injury that is sometimes unavoidable, we are all human. I wish I had good advice to give you but I just dont know enough about you situation. So just know that you are running a higher risk of NPQ and a high risk of bad PT and leadership scores.
I know what you mean, but my OSO is pressuring me. If I don't go 2nd increment then I have to go to PLC-C, and from what I hear getting air contracts isn't as easy for combi.
But then I think back to when I got NPQ before, when I got in trouble for trying to walk on my ankle and the battalion XO saying that if 'he sees me doing anything like that again he'll make sure I never come here again.' (not taking care of injuries)
The choice is ultimately up to you. If you get seriously f'd up this summer, you might never go back. Then again, you might sail through it. You need to weight all the odds and decide for yourself.
mustang_wife
Domestic Engineer Specialist
Oh, I know it...but I didn't want to run down his entire medical history which is all fugazi.
Needless to say, don't get injured.... Where's Crowbar? He's all too familiar with this subject too! 
Ever SI thats not in a good moods whipping boy. Surrounded by dirt bag broke dicks that cant hack it but dont want to tell the folks back home they DOR'd and candidates that are pissed off just as much as you for being F'd up and not being able to do anything about it. Nothing blew at OCS like being on light duty for 7 days and having my entire platoon and platoon staff constantly asking me "are you gonna be able to stay?" over and over again before the med staff finally put the last nail in my coffin and called it a stress fracture. Well... there was the 9 days in the drop barracks waiting to get processed out thinking I may still be around to watch my Platoon graduate... that sucked more then light duty but not by much.
MasterHaynes86
Registered User
Maybe i missed this earlier, but this statement says you've already been there and you know what it is like. If the Batallion XO said he will make sure you never come back, take heed... He probably means it and he said it to motivate you to be more conscious of your body...
It is your decision, weigh the pros and cons
and PLC-C air contract is possible... or you could extend your grad date and do plc jr/sr, but i dunno if id do that one...