Jaybe76,
To condemn a person who has been treated unfairly is asinine. Not in your Corps, eh? How about minding your own business.
Failure in showing fair treatment to an OCS applicant is disillusioning. Consider that application and, therefore, commitment to OCS represents different things to different people. Not taking anything away from recent college graduates, (keeping your nose clean enough to give yourself a chance at being accepted is quite commendable), getting jerked around while making a difficult move away from a successful career does not create warm fuzzies toward they who hold the chain.
I started the application process in April '02, spent that summer getting physically cleared (missing several days of work in the process), missed 181, formally applied after receiving clearance to apply in late September '02 (they wouldn't let me run the application PFT without medical clearance - ran 276 weighing 220# on 11 days' notice), accepted pending medical waiver in November, waiver cleared Jan 9, off to OCS Jan 17. I was working full time until Jan 16. Girlfriend (now wife) was driven nuts by all of the waiting for BUMED, NOMI, the application board, etc.
What I'm saying is that this is a big deal to all involved. Your attitude suggests a mindset that we lowly civilians make these decisions on a whim and commit to nothing. Not true.
Incidentally, I broke my toe the first day of PT by stubbing it on some unseen frozen thing (root? dirt clod? rock?) and was sent home to resume life. It is very exciting to do something (PT) in which you're not yelled at much in those first four days. Watch your step and don't fall victim to a bonehead injury like I did.
Not very respectfully,
Jerry V.
Now happily married and too old to reapply!