Best at OCS

[Tycho_Brohe]

Good to hear!... I would definitely not advise folks to not have proper POV information however, it is required regardless whether decals were done away with.

Oh, definitely. I just meant people didn't need to bring that stuff in with them when they check in, they should just leave it in their cars.

Thanks for the updates, I definitely missed the mission of the Navy especially since the incorrect one(for OCS) is what we are teaching the enlisted folks

Yeah on the Wikipedia page it says that version is in the Recruits' Handbook. I don't know why they don't just have one universal version they teach everybody. Same goes for Anchors Aweigh, apparently there's a few extra verses in the USNA version.

 

[Mr Spenz]

Do we need to bring transcripts and SF86?

 

[Spartan43]

Things to ignore in that book:

• Parking passes. They've since done away with the decals, so if you're bringing your POV, there's nothing to worry about. They never even asked to see my registration/insurance/whatever, so nothing to worry about there.
• Bringing 6 to 8 white crew neck shirts. Bad gouge. If anything, bring a couple navy blue crew-necks instead. And you don't even really need those, you'll be issued some before you'll need to wear them, but if you want to save those for inspections, bring a couple navy blue Hanes. By the time you'll need white shirts, you'll have access to the NEX/uniform store, so you could just pick them up there tax-free.
• "You will also have the opportunity for pistol qualification at the small arms range." I wish. It's just a gun safety course now.
• Warrant Officer ranks. Not worth it. So rarely asked that the time spent getting them figured out is excessive relative to the chance that you'll get asked it.
• The little blurbs there that give you collar devices and insignia word for word. If you memorize those verbatim, it might be more difficult to think on your feet when the question is asked in a different way. If you're asked, "What does the seventh person in your chain of command wear on his Service Dress Blues," knowing the rote stuff isn't gonna help you. If you have true comprehension of the material, you'll know to say that CAPT Kemper, USN wears four gold stripes below a gold five pointed star on his SDB's.
• The mission of the Navy. First of all, it's way off. The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train, and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, and maintaining freedom of the seas. I suppose the one they use in the book is for recruits at boot camp, but it's not the one you need to know. Second, it's missing two of the mission areas. Not as important, and not something you need to memorize, but it comes up in one of the classes.

Other than that, you're right, most of it matches up just fine.

Also, your mailing address won't be in Pensacola (shows you how old the book is)

 

[jg54170]

Mine shows Newport address so at least they updated that lol

 

[Buss]

My DEP Guide says RTC Great Lakes. I think I'm looking at the wrong one...

 

[Spartan43]

Mine shows Newport address so at least they updated that lol

Mine shows Newport address so at least they updated that lol

I guess it's changed in that pdf as well. The mention of Pensacola in a couple sections seems to be the only difference I've found between that and my old booklet.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

New address looks like this:
O/C Tycho Brohe
Officer Candidate School Class 13-13H
1356 Meyerkord Ave
Newport, RI 02841

The second address line isn't that strict, as long as people in the mail room (or H-class, I still don't know if they're sorting the mail anymore, they did in old Nimitz) can tell which class and company you're in.

 

[LFCFan]

New address looks like this:
O/C Tycho Brohe
Officer Candidate School Class 13-13H
1356 Meyerkord Ave
Newport, RI 02841

The second address line isn't that strict, as long as people in the mail room (or H-class, I still don't know if they're sorting the mail anymore, they did in old Nimitz) can tell which class and company you're in.

It's all med hold and student pool folks now. I sorted plenty of mail, so I can say that name class and street address are all you need.

Also, don't have every friggin aunt and person you know send a candio box. It creates a lot of unnecessary work for the folks in the mail room, which pisses off your class team, you will never eat all of it, and you probably don't want to go and put weight back on.

 

[Mr Spenz]

How much weight did you guys lose while at OCS?

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

It's all med hold and student pool folks now. I sorted plenty of mail, so I can say that name class and street address are all you need.

Gotcha. I remember with the changeover (Changeover aye section leader!) to the new building, there was a lot of confusion whether we (H-class) were supposed to keep sorting and distributing it.

Also, don't have every friggin aunt and person you know send a candio box. It creates a lot of unnecessary work for the folks in the mail room, which pisses off your class team, you will never eat all of it, and you probably don't want to go and put weight back on.

+1,000. You may have to start pushing for your boxes too. The only prior Marine in our class, a SSGT with five kids or so, got like 9 boxes, and since our DI had gone home, the DI for our sister company had told us we'd need to do 20 pushups per box.
Thankfully, if there were two people in our class who could do them, it was probably the SEAL and him. His arms were so big around, it caused problems with drill, like when he put his arms down to the side, there was a space you could see through because his triceps were huge. The DI went over and tried to force his arms down, and when that didn't work he said that was pretty hardcore. Which it was.

 

[cinnabon]

A bit late to the party here, but I'd like to let y'all know that there's some competition in the field of "best at OCS." There was this dude on jeopardy tonight, said he's going to OCS. And it was the frickin Tournament of Champions. He's a champion, we're toast.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

A bit late to the party here, but I'd like to let y'all know that there's some competition in the field of "best at OCS." There was this dude on jeopardy tonight, said he's going to OCS. And it was the frickin Tournament of Champions. He's a champion, we're toast.

No kidding. I'm pretty sure one of our candios had been on Jeopardy. LFCFan, do you remember? I think he was in 09-13.

 

[Spekkio]

How much weight did you guys lose while at OCS?

30 lbs, but I put myself on an 1800 cal/day diet after week 5.

 

[Renegade One]

... don't have every friggin aunt and person you know send a candio box. It creates a lot of unnecessary work for the folks in the mail room, which pisses off your class team,...

"Oh, the humanity!"

I'd take this as a challenge to energize not only the aunties, but your HS class, your Frat bros, and anyone else you can think of who would be willing to burn postage to create unnecessary work for the sick and shut-in folks manning the Mail Room…

Nothing says you have to eat it. Give it to the YNs in Admin/Ops, the nice folks in Medical, the folks at the Chaplains Office…the Staff at the gym, you get the idea.

 

[LFCFan]

"Oh, the humanity!"

I'd take this as a challenge to energize not only the aunties, but your HS class, your Frat bros, and anyone else you can think of who would be willing to burn postage to create unnecessary work for the sick and shut-in folks manning the Mail Room…

Nothing says you have to eat it. Give it to the YNs in Admin/Ops, the nice folks in Medical, the folks at the Chaplains Office…the Staff at the gym, you get the idea.

I dread to think what my frat brothers would have sent....

It is actually a storage problem. They take their whole "we have to secure our mail, it is a federal offense if we screw up blah blah blah" very seriously. My class team just had us all throw them in an empty room until candio phase, but apparently other chiefs and DIs either can't figure that out or just don't trust their candidates. Seriously, the candio box thing has become such a silly issue up there. One class emailed home instructions saying they'd get seawalled if their stuff came early (not kidding, I found the file on the share drive one day and about cracked up at the stupidity).