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you'll fall asleep. I failed my first test because i fell asleep during it. If I would have answered like 1 more I would have passed. Sucked. The Bn XO made us stand up and sing a song for everyone if we fell asleep during his presentation towards the end of OCS. Quite funny.

one more thing - the thing that sucks is that theres typically only a few questions on them...so if you miss 3 or 4 you fail the test. but they're not hard at all. you just have to pay attention in class and read over the stuff here and there. I think they said that the tests are all on an...

all were multiple choice except the last two...history 2 and GMS 2. Those were multiple essay....they pretty much told you all the essay questions but you didnt know which one youd get until the test starts. Each platoon got a different one

yeah probably wont happen for you either. We almost made it so sleep at one point but the people next door getting busy woke us out of any daze we might have had. Remember that Lawman?? haha

enjoy the rest. I hated myself for 70 days since I didnt sleep much that night in the hotel before I shipped

That test is supposed to be for people returning to Srs PLC. You wont be tested on that stuff during inprocessing but it will be on tests later on. As far as cadences, the staff wont be calling them for the most part. Its all candidates calling cadences the whole time. The only time our...

Is that the whole fat girl between the sheets thing? My buddy says he still does it that way.

And dont talk about food either. My sister sent me a letter saying how she just got back from Taco Bell. I hated her for about 8 weeks until I could get some of my own.

I saw it last night. I thought it was good, but not a lot of action. A lot of BS love story stuff. Also, I didnt like how personal the students got with the staff. Didnt aseem that professional. I liked the movie though

we just used last name - no first initial. some people had these stamps and used their first initial towards the end. I dont think the staff cared about that sort of thing the last week or two.

ranks (names and what they look like), general orders, learn as much as you can about the m-16 and a bunch of other stuff too if you want. Its just that the general orders will probably take up the most time to memorize out of everything so get a head start on them. And the ranks you'll want...

were you in this past summer? I heard some stuff about the guys from the brig comming up to you all during the parking lot watch...

I liked getting the apples more because they would clean all that nasty oreo and granola trash outta your teeth. Plus they were much easier to eat.

At this point all you can do is wait. It sucks but theres nothing more you can do. Just enjoy your last few days and try to wait it out in peace. Sleep a lot, stay strecthed and limber and some mild PT - dont hurt yourself, enjoy all your meals...thats about it. You're gonna have a good time...

I freaking hated how every night around 2000 I would be starving and couldnt stand it. Those days that we didnt have chow until after PT just plain killed me.

The morning routine was pretty much get up and get on line within 10 seconds. Then get dressed in the next 20 seconds. Then fix racks and shoe displays for about 15 seconds and then sweep the floor with our damn scuzz brushes for about 10 seconds. so I would highly reccommend staying on top...

Just a little bit more on that - the first few weeks we were going crazy trying to figure out what the different levels of probation meant. Everyone gets libo no matter what level of probation you are on. The part that differs is what you're allowed to do. If you get 1 failure on anything...

Maybe we did pay for it with cash. Dont really remember anymore. and its up to $7 now. Second the not graduating part. It came real real close for me during week 6. thankfully they never took that second x-ray or I probably would have been on my way out. Good luck to the -193 guys. Eat...

I was told to stop mid-air while jumping off of a high obstacle. I had to get back up and try again 3 times. When I couldnt figure out how to hover in the air, I got an essay for failure to follow simple instructions

I would imagine if you are already contracted and selected for -194 as an air contract, then you would still have it. This pertains to people who arent already going to OCS

that guy was awesome. I was in 3rd but he always played games with me in the chow hall. Me: "GOOD AFTERNOON GUNNERY SERGEANT!!!!" GySgt P: "Cant hear ya" did this back and forth like 10 or so times a week. "OUR BACKS ARE..." "STRAIGHT!!"

Stress fracture

Nah its deducted out of the pay that you havent received at that point

Me either for fear of turning my head to look at something else. But we still werent allowed to use it!

Very true. Its all relative. But also at the same time I dont think that anyone is talking about how hard their life has been or how badass they are for having made it through. compared to being in combat I'm sure OCS isnt ****. It sucked and all that but was kind of fun in a way too. All a...

We were standing in the pouring rain waiting to hump back from the day land nav. I was squad leader so I'm standing there in the front with my pack on for like 45 minutes not moving. I closed my eyes while we were waiting for like a minute or so and then the platoon Sgt happened to see me...

the muffins did kick ass but those last couple days of breakfast I couldnt eat them anymore. I wasnt a big fan of that chili mac stuff. My favorite part of the meals was the french toast and the white cake.

I f'ing hate the cold. I'm glad I got it done in the summer. Oh well, I guess TBS will kick my ass in the cold.

your three catagories are ground, air, or law. Ground consists of pretty much all the ground jobs there are in the marine corps (your specific one to be determined at TBS) and Air contract consists of both pilot and Nfo. But yo uactually have to contract as either a pilot or an NFO.

"SAY MY DIDDY *****!!!!"

the "holy crap" didnt hit me until i crossed the tracks on the bus and saw the O-course and all that trash in the background. (Make sure you take a nice good look at that big bridge over your head when your pulling in.) It didnt even bother me at the airport when they were f-ing with us.

am I correct to say that you can do the PTAD for two months prior to TBS and the rest of the time between commissioning and TBS you are unpaid?

one more thing - if you want to bring a stamp kit to mark all your white tapes that you put on your rifle, 782 gear, etc. then thats ok and would actually save a lot of time. Didnt really read this whole thread, but if you're talking about marking clothing and stuff I'd hold off.

They give you (read make you buy) that little stamping kit in the yellow box made by the Officer's Equipment Company. But they also gave us a 1" and 1/2" stencil that we used for most of our stuff. I wouldnt reccommend going crazy marking stuff before you ship because they give you a...

practice running hills

Ghey. Lawman - They were supposed to send the last hard check from OCS to our OSO if the direct deposit didnt kick in by then. I didnt get mine yet (from 01 Aug - 11 Aug), but I think it should be in the office by now. I'll have to call in. I dont know if yours is different though...

yes you sign up for Pilot or NFO. Both are considered air contracts but you have to get selected as either a pilot or nfo contract.

yeah the book describes the method to doing them. You need to set up your own pattern. For example, is the plane going out to sea or is it moving away from the sea towards the shore. Then see if its going straight into the sea/shore or is it flying at some angle to it. Then is it banked to...

yeah take a break and heal up. I did the whole 10 miles a day bs a few months before going...then I healed up and just ran kinda hard a few times a week. You can run hard every now and then to make sure that you still stay in shape, but dont be trying to drastically improve your run time by...

Knowledge wise, make sure you know your general orders. They give you plenty of time to learn them there, but its better if you already know them. But make sure that you at least look over them and dont sit around thinking "yeah I know those". One thing I didnt know about was if I should...

Nah. Zugg watches that trash on VHS still! Coke commercial and all

I finished 10 weeks about a month ago. I'm glad that I'm done now and dont have to go back there again, but then again, thats after an additional month. dont know how I would feel after 6 weeks. But I will say this - I almost got NPQ. I had to basically lie about not being injured. I ended...

yeah this past summer Charlie Co. Props if that was you. I've never seen it done that fast!! Did you guys go off and have dinner and do skits and stuff right after the field meet? We were in the classroom and I just wondered if you guys were there too on the other side.

I thought the worst part was that little sprint to the ropes :-) During the field meet, I saw this one dude form Alpha whip over those 4 high logs using this spinning method. Never saw that before. It was awesome. Definatly smoked the hopping method.

fyi for those taking cars down...during liberty, they inspect cars before you're allowed to take them and leave (not every time, just at first). They check out stuff like making sure that your turn signals work and all your lights and all that hoohah. But they also make you have this safety...

I have never hit an 18:00 on the PFT. You dont need to have an 18:00 PFT to succeed at OCS. The faster you are and the more endurance you have the better, but my fastest time was 19:03 and my avg. time while at OCS was about 21:00. I'm not saying slack off or anything, but for you guys...

The ham and cheese was actually not too bad. Not too fond of the mystery meat though. You move about as a platoon even during in-processing. If you get there early, you'll most likely get a head start, but you dont get to go to sleep at night any sooner.

If you can pass everything in the ARCO book then there should be no reason to get other stuff. The test really isnt that hard. I'm not saying blow it off, but if you've studied everything you have, then you should be fine. Good luck on the test.

The first sunday they made us attend some sort of service. They probably just wanted to get us outta the squad bay. The next few sundays it was optional, you dont need to go. The people who stay behind usualy had stuff to do like clean the squad bay or whatever. The rest of the day is mostly...

I was wondering why I saw a bunch of people marching around during that weekend. That kinda blows. Our first libo we didnt get released until like 7:30pm but we never had one pulled. I was at medical that morning that all those heat cases happened and they pulled all PT. I was waiting for my...