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If you were put on NOE status (dunno if they'd do that for pneumonia - they do for guys getting broke to put them on disability leave or whatever admin calls it). Get cleared for active duty ASAP. September 29th I was cleared by a doc here after a stress fracture. Ppwork gets sent to BUMED to...

An interesting point that someone else brought up; the CO is SF, which means he has experience training indigenous personnell. Maybe he's not wholly bonkers after all. Sad comment now that we're comparing our support personnell (it's not an infantry BCT, thank god) to indigenous personell.

What % .....aaah nevermind.

I'd begun to doubt the veracity of the article, but it was from Wall Street Journal online. Can't find the original link but here's a collegejournal (subsidiary of WSJ) link: http://www.collegejournal.com/successwork/onjob/20060216-jaffe.html

Who's "us"? The People's Front of Judea? or Judean People's Front?

I've lost count of how many people I've run into who've asked me "How's that Army thing going" "You flying for the Air Force yet?" which for a Marine candi-o is just frustrating.

I'll repeat what I've said on two other boards. Somebody senior to the two CO's quoted in the article needs to go onto amazon, buy two copies of Fehrenbach's "This Kind of War" (The Korean War history) and ship them to Ft Wood. Ferenbach was an Army CPT during the Korean war and details what...

The white rubber thingy is a big fat eraser for cleaning scuffs. It....kinda works.

Technically it's the F4U Corsair and the F-4 Phantom II.

Climb cliffs.... check (combat course) Fight dragons....check (if by dragons you mean 8511's and by fight you mean cower in fear and shout replies at the top of your lungs) Blues......nope. Commissioned in Greens. Sword.....nope. Yea, I got gypped.

Gloves! Clapping! What you clapping for, boy? You think this is some kinda show? You want me to take a bow, can-di-date? I want to see a 300-word essay on "Why Marines don't clap in the field" in my box at 0500.

The closest I got to jets was the delta shuttle that delivered me into the kind, caring hands of the OCS staff. That and the C-17's landing at HMX-1.

I got my schedule down to an 0420 dump like clockwork. Real easy on the guts. Chow before PT? That's rough. We did that once or twice and it was no fun. It was always awesome to work up and appetite and have chow to look forward to. Guy in my platoon ran a 25 minute intermediate PFT because...

0430 before lights. Occasionally we'd be allowed a head call prior to a run (not a great idea; real crowded and harried). During class. before/after chow. And then there's of course: GOOD AFTERNOON STAFF SERGEANT, CANDIDATE XUE REQUESTS PERMISSION TO SPEAK TO STAFF SERGEANT L CANDIDATE...

quanticoboot.com danner.com (if you want to pig out and splurge)

Okay, now I know why my SI's picked on the ERAU kids. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3652164016731046366&q=top+gun

I figured the 12 was hyperbole. Still, 2 seems real low. Hell, we were drinking water just to stay awake in class. I think I averaged 6 or so - one before rack time, one to start the day, one after PT, and at least 2 in class, or more if we were in the field.

Okay, this is just ridiculous. I just got another im from a guy that went to my high school. This is a 1000-student school in NYC that is most famous for graduating the redhead on Sex in the City and the writer/producer of lost.

You gotta be ****ting me. See what happens when you post your personal info on the internet? My high school is better known for producing poor thespians than aviators.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1559544.htm

So instead of some wierdo in San Laredo spying on me, the wierdo nextdoor spies on me. Oh, and when you graduate all the wierdos in your city get to spy on you, too. (And boy, are there a lot of wierdos here) Fun times. I treat it no different than my web page: www.columbia.edu/~mmx1/ The...

On paper, 2012.

The boatcloak! Is that still worn? Edit: Damn, too slow

Well you'll be in quite a pickle. We were recommended to drink 10-12 canteens a day, or 2.5-3 gallons.

This is the Marine OCS forum. Guessing by BDCP and Pensacola, you're asking about Navy OCS.

I used it once - for the frame of my Alice Pack. It's just the right width - all the other guys were doubling their 1/2" tapes and making a mess of it. Hmm, come to think of it, i think we were issued 3/4 in tape - we got 1/2 inch and 1 inch lettering stencils but the stencils didn't go the...

Ah, the inside stories. Any place to read up on his actions?

There are only three editions of the new test (and I bet questions are recycled between them, which is probably one of the reasons they make you wait a month and then a year between tests). Once you've seen all three.....fuggghetaboutit.

Fartlek refers to a type of run where you stop every so often to do calisthenics and other exercises. E.g. Run 400m, do 20 situps, 400m, 10 pullups, and so on for 3 miles. We did these 3-4 times a week.

Google turns up a bunch of links but none definitive. How's this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/trivia It's supposed to be in the credits.

How about no as in, "better to get this out in the fleet and in the hands of Marines now and work on the update than wait until the update's done." Never let perfect get in the way of good enough.

It's W-2 time! Yay! Will I get mailed a W-2 for my summer pay or do I have to register for a pin on mypay?

Right, because when it comes out it'll be ridiculously expensive to cash in on all the early adopters with more money than sense. It'll take another year before it becomes affordable. Better strategy is to wait for the release and cash in on the price shift when the old Centrinos devalue.

In the Company of Heroes by Mike Durant Not Navy or Marine Corps but talks about his helo career and of course, his time in captivity. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Historical fiction about the battle of Thermopylae; good read on the warrior ethic.

He might want to ask Charlie Wenzel about anonymity on the internet.

Tegtag was being facetious. The goal is that by the end of OCS you will do all your PT in boots. The go-fasters are just to acclimate you so you don't break down so fast. I think one of COL Rachal's initiatives was to keep guys in go-fasters longer to reduce injuries. Depends on the company...

Just in his defense, because I know how he feels, he's weighing the FAC experience against going grunt from the get-go, and he's asking if the FAC billet'll get him the mud and grunt leadership that he craves. I don't know if this is how he feels, but I know my attitude is I want BOTH, which...

Man, those DI's really get to you, don't they? You're the third guy I know who wants to drop an air contract and go infantry. I've been tossing the idea around for a while and wanted to see if I could go ground and later go through a Field Accession board to go air. What it came down to would be...

You'll need the issue USMC boots with the EGA on the side. Hell, I suspect my USMC Danners won't pass inspection as they're a finer cut of leather (the rough side has been polished down somewhat and hence noticeably darker) than the Bellevilles I was issued this summer. Doubt they'll notice or...

This a veiled reference to Mr. Wart? Bet the staff'll have a fun time figgering out which candi-o that is.

They quizzed us on the Leadership Traits and Principles but it was less important than the big 4. You should know the hymn, and just start reading through the candidate regs: http://www.ocs.usmc.mil/New_Web_Format/Candidate_Information/Preparation%20Documents.htm It's a huge file so save...

I thought the vid clips were a bit short but that may just be how they were broken up, or that my own memories are far more extensive. Any extras on the DVD?

We had some guys whining about how nasty and disgusting and how sick we were all getting from it. No suprise, they DOR'd week 4. I figured if my platoon commander, my OSO, and every other Marine officer, past, present, and future (well, with _some_ exceptions), had gone through the muck, it...

Watch out now, needs of the Corps, you know. Don't let any military docs put you under general anesthesia before you go.... :eek:

No. That stuff's for API, not ASTB. The only think you need from that site is the ASTB gouge.pdf. Even that won't help you much as you only need to study the mechanical comprehension out of that gouge. The OAR is based only on Math, Reading, and Mechanical Comprehension. You're sure you're just...

It means you passed, now go out and run. It's really no more complex than that.

The page is probably still up, but google probably rearranged their algorithms so it woudn't be first. It's a pretty old googlebomb and google updates their figures pretty often so it's not that suprising.

It's all in there. Page 3-2, to be exact. 1240 F/W, 2014 R/W, 394 NFO.

I doubt Israel has much of a need for in-flight refueling. You could fly the width of the country in 10 minutes; there's really not much to be gained unless you're staging tankers outside their airspace. That'd explain why they're so big on slapping conformal fuel tanks on their fighters.

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