Hey dustball, I don't know if he has gotten anything specific like orders. I doubt it actually. So of course it doesn't mean much. I guess I just assume that where he has gotten some word, perhaps his OSO is more in the loop. I half way suspect that they know more than they let on but won't tell the cand/Lt's anything because of the way things are so apt to change. Anyways, I have to go early for IFS and so did he, that is why we would be leaving so early. I could handle Sep as a tentative date, its that no one seems to know a tentative date for going to IFS.
As far as for what people do between OCS and TBS, I had a buddy that just went to OCC and he got about two weeks in between OCS and TBS. Direct commissionees get first slot for TBS, I believe you usually have a good idea before you leave OCS when you are supposed to report to TBS. Thus, the reason that myself as PLC'er gets last priority in TBS slots and could leave in June, Sep, Nov.