Used to be communal heads, but we moved into a new building last year, so now with the suite-style setup, it's four people per two showers. For us it was usually a fifteen minute hygiene call after PT/breakfast and before classes, so you'd need to take care of everything in that time (one guy showers and the other shaves, then switch). Not sure what the current attitude is on getting up early, but you could also conceivably wake up a little bit before reveille to take care of shaving, assuming you have a watch with an alarm and class team lets you wear it. Or shave the night before, if you don't get five o'clock shadow.This may have been asked, but what is the shower situation like? Is it timed? Where are they located? How often? What time do we take them? Is that when we should shave also? Do we shower as a group?
Thanks in advance
Male if that matters.
I know that the NAM thing is true. One of the guys (Tycho's regcom) was in NIOBC with me, and since he isn't a prior he gets stared at and questioned a lot about it.
A classmate of mine also Heimleched a dude, no medal though.
Those friggin' St. Louis-style BBQ ribs that they serve on like the Wednesday of indoc week. We were obviously still on grab-and-go, so it was like Russian Roulette. But with ribs.In the beginning of my OCS journey, I was vaguely amused at the idea of serving bone-in fish to a chow hall filled with hundreds of tired, ravenous candidates whose sole mission was to devour the contents of their plates as swiftly as humanly possible. Then somebody choked.
And since he was still an officer candidate at that point, they had to pin it onto his NWU's at the award ceremony.I know that the NAM thing is true. One of the guys (Tycho's regcom) was in NIOBC with me, and since he isn't a prior he gets stared at and questioned a lot about it.
I'll never forget, the DI for our sister company told them to popcorn while they were waiting for it to start. Some misguided souls in our own company also started to popcorn, and our DI was like "Knock it off, we don't do that popcorn shit."
Another stupid question: What does "to popcorn" mean?
So how do you stand at attention for long periods of time? Bend your knees slightly? Or just endure?
Shifting your weight slightly from foot to foot, and curling and uncurling your toes can help as well. But definitely don't lock your knees.Yeah, the easiest way is to just very slightly bend your knees. Never lock them straight or you run the chance of passing out.
It says it in the email that your chain of command receives with your FS letter. I mailed mine in, but there were some people in my class that didn't get an FS letter or service agreement. My roommate at OCS was one of them, and they all still commissioned. So I wouldn't worry about it. Just know how many years your designator incurs.This is a question for the AD people I guess - did you ever have to sign an OCS service agreement before you left for OCS? A couple people in my class said they had to sign and send one that they received with their FS, and since I never got an FS, just hard copy orders - I'm wondering what this Service Agreement thing is all about because I thought it was only for non AD people. Any information would be greatly appreciated.