sTUPID qUESTIONS aBOUT ocs

[Tycho_Brohe]

I got a few stupid questions about uniforms.

How do uniforms work when you get liberty? Are you required to wear them on liberty?

Yup, khakis in most cases. If you get special lib for very rare cases (funeral, birth of child maybe), you may wear civvies.
(EDIT: Oh, also, we had 4th of July liberty, we got to wear Summer Whites for that, which was pretty sick.)

Do you have to wear them when leaving, then change into something else off-base?

You wear the dress uniform for the graduation and then you can change into civvies to load up the car and move out of the barracks and whatnot.

Do you have any civilian clothes with you at all, besides stuff in the POV?

Just what you bring. You can either bring a pair of clean civvies for after graduation, wash the clothes you showed up in at check-in, or buy something at the NEX in candio phase (this was the case for me since the jeans I wore on the first day did not fit me by graduation time, lost something like 20 pounds).

 

[Ultimyke]

Thanks for the speedy reply. If my clothes no longer fit, could I just leave OCS in khakis and stop by a mall on the way back home/next assignment?

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

I guess you could, but if you're going to do that, you might as well get the clothes from the NEX on base. They have most of the same stuff as the mall, it's tax-free, and you don't stand out as much in the khaki uniform. Plus you can pretty much go there anytime in candio phase (when you have some free time).

 

[Ultimyke]

I didn't know that NEX was that stocked. That's cool

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

Oh yeah, they got a bunch of stuff at the Newport one. I picked up a Ralph Lauren polo, some Levi's and a pair of Sambas to wear home after graduation. Just don't go into the electronics section before you're a candio. People have been busted trying to get on the laptops there, and it didn't end well at all.

 

[Ultimyke]

Should I bring my own laptop and keep it in my truck? I'm very tempted to drive.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

Ehh, it's your call. If you do bring it, you'll only get to use it for the last three weeks. Plus you won't be able to connect to the Internet in the barracks, so you'd have to bring it to the Starbucks/Internet cafe (actually I don't know if they even have Wi-Fi there), but they have a bunch of computers there anyway. They're MWR computers, free to connect to the Internet, but you have to set up an account with a credit card. I would lean towards "it's not really worth it to bring your laptop," but people have done it, or so I've heard.

 

[Surf]

I have a follow up question to the uniforms. Do they change the uniform seasonally? Just curious what I might be wearing around my commission date late November.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

I have a follow up question to the uniforms. Do they change the uniform seasonally? Just curious what I might be wearing around my hopeful commission date late November.

Yes, you'll probably be in SDB's. It's dress whites in the summer and dress blues in the winter. I can't recall what the gouge dates are for the changeover (maybe Halloween and Easter?) but they usually happen around the same time each year. Late November should definitely be SDB's.

 

[Surf]

Cool thanks!

 

[Ultimyke]

I would lean towards "it's not really worth it to bring your laptop," but people have done it, or so I've heard.

I'll probably defer to your judgement. I'll bring my phone and toss it in the car for the beginning.

 

[LET73]

Yup, khakis in most cases. If you get special lib for very rare cases (funeral, birth of child maybe), you may wear civvies.
(EDIT: Oh, also, we had 4th of July liberty, we got to wear Summer Whites for that, which was pretty sick.)

That's a change since I went through. We had to wear our summer whites if we went off base in Pensacola (which is how a female classmate learned the hard way that maybe she should have left the brightly-colored skivvies at home...). That's too bad, the whites (and blues, if you're there in the fall/winter) are way slicker than the khakis.

 

[Tycho_Brohe]

That's a change since I went through. We had to wear our summer whites if we went off base in Pensacola (which is how a female classmate learned the hard way that maybe she should have left the brightly-colored skivvies at home...). That's too bad, the whites (and blues, if you're there in the fall/winter) are way slicker than the khakis.

Yeah I'm not sure if the lib uniform changes from khakis to blues in the winter, I was there in the summer, but I sure hope they do. Khakis are nowhere near warm enough for a New England winter.

 

[Spartan43]

Yeah I'm not sure if the lib uniform changes from khakis to blues in the winter, I was there in the summer, but I sure hope they do. Khakis are nowhere near warm enough for a New England winter.

Khakis were the official lib uniform for winter as well.

 

[LET73]

That's a shame. Don't get me wrong, it was pretty nerve-wracking to go out in your whites and risk spilling something on them, but it's just hard to look bad in that uniform.