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You know its gonna be funny when you hear "Do you know what you remind me of candidate?...."

I went to Marine OCS last June, but I assume the pre-ocs jitters are the same. Up until a few months before, I was in the nervous, have-to-know-everything-about-OCS phase. It actually eased up right before I shipped. At my pre-ship brief, hotel the night before, plane ride there, checking...

dang...I got there around 0500 and was out by noon. The whole "underwear thing" - you need to strip down so that the doc can look at your back and knees and all that crap. You dont want to be the guy that doesnt have any underwear on. Its just a long boring day of testing. Nothing that you...

I think I would have crapped a joyous loaf had I been there. Awesome.

And that would really freaking suck because he told them at the end of his suicide speech

I'm not sure what sort of weight training on the legs works out for faster running, but I think that going to OCS with the strongest legs possible will help out. My leg muscles would usually be the first to really fatigue on things like the long ass runs through trails, doing the fire team...

I was just joking about mine being as nasty as that picture, but they were all rough and crusty for a few months. I probably could have walked on nails and not felt it. They've since returned to pansy mode

bingo...then do the crunches afterwards...you get drunk all over again

That sucks man. One step at a time I guess. Dont lose the motivation!

I think mine looked like that for about a month or two after OCS. Disgusting.

I tried that a couple times too. I heard that it makes your feet tougher, but it ends up killing. running on sand in shoes kills your calfs more because you have to do more of a shuffle instead of rolling your foot, but doing it barefoot hurt. I would reccommend not changing anything this...

My cousin is Mr. Rich doctor man and owns his own plane and takes me flying all the time. I havent really had and "official" flight lessons but he used to be an instructor and has showed me some stuff. Only about 30-some hours of flying though.

TLC is doing mine for $3200

I had the same results. supplements didnt really do much but the bananas helped out a lot. I had the problem in my calfs though.

your oso will be able to give you the best answer as to how many numbers are still available.

you work or whatever you need to do. It is possible sometimes to get picked up for recruiters assistant or other jobs, but you're not really on the payroll otherwise until you class up.

Do you use those frozen concentrated cans, or the ready to drink type?

As far as the shin splints go, the only times that I felt like I was getting them would be at the end of the humps that we moved really fast on and when we would do the "shuffle" for long periods of time. I would prefer to just run (even though I suck at it) than to force myself to run slow...

we only had one guy in my platoon hurt his shoulder bad. It was during the LRC and he was trying to climb a rope and kind of fell, but then caught himself with one hand. It snapped his shoulder pretty hard because he caught himself while falling. Like I said earlier, its rare to seriously...

when I had mine, every night I would take a towel or a shirt or something and then put a bag of ice on my leg, wrap the towel around it and then tie it up to the bottom of the rack on top of me (doesnt really work if you get the top rack). Either way, make sure to stretch and then ice and...

congrats. good luck

Completely forgot...I signed up last month. Great deal. The NRA membership also just saved me $150 on the PRK I'm about to get in 3 weeks.

my motivation for never being dehydrated while down there

spray paint your shirt with a big yellow circle. It'll look cool.

Lawman - LCpl "That Guy" a.k.a. "Michelle" just contracted air at our office. I hope that you can come down to the function on the 17th and check out his "ride". :D oohrah Marine Corps kill.

damn...that seems like it would suck more than doing the situps straight. Its only 2 minutes...

Why do you have to be 24 to get it done? They say that you should be 21 just to make sure that your eyes are done changing.

I am in the system but have no idea what my pin was. I sent a request to have my pin mailed to my home address about 4-5 weeks ago. Still havent gotten anything. I'm going to go down to the federal building this week and get it fixed up.

Congrats on the selection and welcome to the forums. If you cant find something on here, then ask away. I did your same program last summer in -192.

I guy I work with does that with beer all the time. Makes the best pork chops.

It definately was awesome putting them on for the first time. Congrats on the upcomming commission. Dont count down too early..it will never come!

a lot of guys bought those during libo towards the end... oohrah charlie co.. /done repping

It could have been some sort of rear naked choke that didnt work out too well. If you pull your wrist bone in around the throat and squeeze really hard you can crack it. Sort of like a face crank on the throat. We had a bouncer at a club in cleveland get in trouble a few years ago. He tried...

obviously you need to be qualified before you can be considered

They are a lot lighter and make for easier running and climbing, but are definately not a must. So dont go out and buy any just because of this thread. I stopped using mine around week 6-7 because my foot went snap and they sucked for support. Only get them if you choose to, but definately...

When I found out that I was selected to go to OCS, I stopped playing. I just practiced with the team and didnt play any games. I had a mild knee iinjury that I didnt want to screw up.

maybe they were just attacking a colony of ants right in front of them

He always stood in the best place on the fartlek runs...right on top of the damn hill! I put everything I had into sprinting up that thing. It always sucked turing that corner and realizing that you were only half way up

I agree. They dont have the sharp edge to "cut" into the rope. The first few times we climbed the rope I still have on my lites from earlier in the day. I spent so much time climbing it with those that I got used to it. So it can be done, but when I finally had the other ones on it made a...

He would put everything that he had into his classes. Normally, each class would start with the typical Co 1stSgt reporting in to the instructor and all that stuff. It would be very cut and dry and routine. Then you had Capt. Seibert come running in on this bayonette charge firing off blanks...

I thought the rumor was that he's leaving after the current OCC meaning before this summer. Oh well, theres rumors for you... I also liked how he just kinda said dammit and jumped right in there to help the kid along. While I'm a big fan of the Colonel, do you think that he still would have...

Yeah. He came running in from the side of the room screaming and firing the weapon. Woke me the hell up. Very motivation instructor.

Mine didnt get torn up, but did anyone else get a black stain on the top of your boot from stepping the rope onto it? I got a big one but it scrubbed right out.

It was cool going down to look at those during the piss break

One of the history instructors at OCS was killed in action last week. One of the best instructors there in the classroom. He would always dress up in old USMC uniforms of the era that he was about to teach. Good man...RIP http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07051/763428-54.stm

I loved the staff going through the quigley with the candidates because "they wouldnt have made it if they didnt help out". I laughed for a good 10 minutes at that. I can just see them walking away thinking "dammit I had to get wet for this damn show and pretend that I like these nasty college...

The beauty of the Blue Falcon Productions!

Not a bad documentary. It was nice to see some of the staff on the video that was there when I went through it, instead of seeing some footage from 1998. It made it a bit more personal. It actually brought back the good memories instead of the bad ones like seeing pictures and other stuff...

second that

Its never TOO early. You definately wont need a year to prepare (I hope not) just maybe a month or two. But if you want to start looking over stuff now, its not a problem at all. Its just like PTing now. You don't NEED to, but if you get a start on it and maintain it, it will only make...