Officer Indoctrination School (OIS)

[El Cid]

Hahaha yeah, the nuke instructors are the closest to worthless that I have ever seen. They oftens show up missing belts, covers and other basic components. Their ability to teach is limited to reading off of Powerpoint but they miss no opportunity to tell you how smart they are. Then they go home at 1430 after rolling in at 0740 or whenever "traffic" allows. Civilians in sloppy uniforms.

They are a riot. If you go through Charleston, SC don't miss the show. The seven o'clock is different than the eleven o'clock!

Easy now. I've seen some top notch DIO's at nuke school and I've seen pos unrestricted line as well. Hell, my XO is a walking nightmare when it comes to uniforms and is oblivious to command climate. That being said regardless of the uniform condition your officers are your officers and you follow their orders regardless of personal opinion (unless they are unlawful, just in case any "sea-lawyers" are out there).

Well, that being said I don't think these officers should be treated any worse than those that go through regular OCS. The Marine Corps OCS is 10 weeks and PLC is two 6 week sessions. There is plenty of time to learn additional information during follow on schools. To say Officers coming out of OIS aren't prepared I would imagine isn't true. Not that I have any experience, just my own thoughts (not worth anything haha)

Time has nothing to do with it. It's the type of training that you recieve that makes the difference:
> UL get more specialized training due to command resposibilities and professional education on leading people into harms way. UL training consists of command and control, engineering and weapons education due to practical application later on in the job.

> RL get less training of a professional nature because the jobs they fill don't require them to know the technical side of the Navy. RL usually have their professional training taken care of at grad school and only need a knife and fork school with some Navy tradition thrown in to help them transition to military life.

 

[NukeWife]

Hahaha yeah, the nuke instructors are the closest to worthless that I have ever seen.

I'm not going to offer an opinion, since my opinion is based on what I've heard from many, not any firsthand knowledge, but, I just wanted to point out (although I'm sure most, if not all of you know) that not all instructors here are DIOs, there are plenty from the "real" Navy.

 

[Honour_Class]

Yes, quite right. There are some instructors at power school that are sea-returnees serving their shore tours. They are not nuke instructors. There is a special program in the navy for nuke instructor. They are eligible only to teach at power school or be human resource officers at PSD's. They pick it like they other officers pick SWO, NFO, submarines...

 

[Thisguy]

I heard they used to be called Direct Issue Limited Duty Officer, until someone figured out that was a bad acronym, even for the navy.

 

[Honour_Class]

Actually Direct Input Limited Duty Officers, but yes someone didn't like the acronym they won.

 

[El Cid]

The term is still used when you get a snobby DIO as an instructor. The Ditrect Input Limited Duty Officer is more of an "honorary" title now.