As someone with a little more life experience and a background in the corporate world coming into the Navy as an E3, I was initially frustrated every day by the Navy’s inefficiencies. As a junior enlisted Sailor, rather than letting these daily occurrences wear me down, I started journaling everything. I told myself that instead of getting angry, I would use this as motivation to commission and eventually be in a position to drive change. OCS boards taking this long is definitely making it onto the list.