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sTUPID qUESTIONS aBOUT ocs
- Thread starter TheBubba
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Used to be communal heads, but we moved into a new building last year, so now with the suite-style setup, it's four people per two showers. For us it was usually a fifteen minute hygiene call after PT/breakfast and before classes, so you'd need to take care of everything in that time (one guy showers and the other shaves, then switch). Not sure what the current attitude is on getting up early, but you could also conceivably wake up a little bit before reveille to take care of shaving, assuming you have a watch with an alarm and class team lets you wear it. Or shave the night before, if you don't get five o'clock shadow.This may have been asked, but what is the shower situation like? Is it timed? Where are they located? How often? What time do we take them? Is that when we should shave also? Do we shower as a group?
Thanks in advance
Male if that matters.
In the beginning of my OCS journey, I was vaguely amused at the idea of serving bone-in fish to a chow hall filled with hundreds of tired, ravenous candidates whose sole mission was to devour the contents of their plates as swiftly as humanly possible. Then somebody choked.
Those friggin' St. Louis-style BBQ ribs that they serve on like the Wednesday of indoc week. We were obviously still on grab-and-go, so it was like Russian Roulette. But with ribs.
And since he was still an officer candidate at that point, they had to pin it onto his NWU's at the award ceremony.
I'll never forget, the DI for our sister company told them to popcorn while they were waiting for it to start. Some misguided souls in our own company also started to popcorn, and our DI was like "Knock it off, we don't do that popcorn shit."
Standing at attention for a very long time can be pretty tiring, and sometimes people have the tendency to lock their knees. Something something about blood flow and potentially passing out. "Popcorn" means to basically bob up and down a little bit to keep that blood flowing and stop you from locking your knees.
Spookcumber
Active Member
Yeah, the easiest way is to just very slightly bend your knees. Never lock them straight or you run the chance of passing out.
Fronch
OCS 03-15 (IW)
Shifting your weight slightly from foot to foot, and curling and uncurling your toes can help as well. But definitely don't lock your knees.
Spookcumber
Active Member
This is a question for the AD people I guess - did you ever have to sign an OCS service agreement before you left for OCS? A couple people in my class said they had to sign and send one that they received with their FS, and since I never got an FS, just hard copy orders - I'm wondering what this Service Agreement thing is all about because I thought it was only for non AD people. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
BeLikeMike
Primary!!!
It says it in the email that your chain of command receives with your FS letter. I mailed mine in, but there were some people in my class that didn't get an FS letter or service agreement. My roommate at OCS was one of them, and they all still commissioned. So I wouldn't worry about it. Just know how many years your designator incurs.
Spookcumber
Active Member
Awesome, thank you!
Spookcumber
Active Member
One more quick question that I couldn't find the exact answer for:
- What kind of ribbons/medals are allowed for priors? Does it matter if they are ultra thin? Should they be Anodized medals or not?
I usually order my ribbon racks from https://www.usamilitarymedals.com/ because they look a lot sharper and the stars/devices look a lot cleaner than when I manually put them on (So frustrating!). Any advice on this would be appreciated.
- What kind of ribbons/medals are allowed for priors? Does it matter if they are ultra thin? Should they be Anodized medals or not?
I usually order my ribbon racks from https://www.usamilitarymedals.com/ because they look a lot sharper and the stars/devices look a lot cleaner than when I manually put them on (So frustrating!). Any advice on this would be appreciated.
