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Insider Scoop on Navy OCS
- Thread starter flynavyp3
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You just won't understand until you're going through it. I knew what to expect beforehand and it was still 1000% different than what I read. Just relax and get to it when you get to it.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
There are sand pits. You PT in them. Sand gets all up in your clothing and crevices. It sucks, but I'd take it over bear crawling through goose poop anyday.
Someday
Dude?
Yeah, that is why NROTC exists.
Seriously, OCS seems like a big deal at the time, but it is just the tip of the stoic iceberg. Granted, your life won't be as exquisitely painful as it was in OCS (Warner Springs excluded), but through-out your naval career you will continually be asked to sacrifice. It is a more profound stoicism that allows you to fore sake friends and family for the greater good of your country. When you haven't seen your wife for months, your friends for years and your baby ever, you need that deep sense of commitment to continue with those endless 16 hour days.
You figured out early that this wasn't for you. Good job, you've saved yourself a lot of time and the government a lot of money. Go forth into the world and do great things.
SD
Harrier Dude
Living the dream
No.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
It's not like they rake the goose poop into a big pile for you to crawl through. It's just that there are lots of geese in RI, and they happen to have bowel movements....frequently.
DIs cannot strike you. They will stiffarm you in the first stages of training if you get within arms length, though. Everyone at OCS is a grown adult, and you never know what people's backgrounds are.
were you in class 17-08?
i actually enjoyed the sand pit, it was softer than the grass and generally didn't have goose poop so you were *relatively* clean at the end of it. i'd much rather be sandy and/or muddy then be covered in goose crap.
Or to have hands full of stickers (those fvcking thorny balls that were ALL over the damn grass). I kinda would have rather have had goose crap. At least you weren't risking cellulitis with poop.
No, you could get your hand sliced and diced from the seashells that the birds would drop on the PT field. More then one person had a piece go through their hand bear crawling.
What about a good old case of Hook Worms? Crap has all kinds of unhealthy...crap in it.
