Your OCS Experience

[mmx1]

haha thanks... next summer it will likely come in handy I hear Srs. get a few essays and negative chits...

Does anyone know if PLC Srs get hooch games? The ones i ran into were informed "we dont have time for games" and they didn't play any real games... a couple "bags parallel to the ground" games, but no real messes were made... thats what the Srs told me at least, and I asked several Srs... Anyone confirm? Any Srs (from last summer or this summer) get out of hooch games?

All depends on your staff. Most Srs that I've talked to said they got gamed, sometimes up to graduation.

 

[MasterHaynes86]

you know..to be honest I cant even remember the SSgt's reasoning. This all happened during that blur that encompasses the first few days after pickup. I just remember the topic and being too damn scared to laugh about it at the time. haha!

haha, its cool I dont ask why, just do or die? haha

OORAH!

on a similar note, on first libo, one candidate took a poll in the platoon asking "who has been able to get a chubby"
it was a unanimous "nobody"... I dont think it is possible to maintain an erection at OCS...

did anyone else think the female candidates were cute on Libo? just asking...
OK another story

one day the females were walkin by my platoon at chow and one candidate followed a particular hottie (and yes, she was a hottie... at OCS and in real life POST OCS) with his eyes... a female GySgt screamed "Damn candidate, you would think she was hot chow! She's just as nasty as you. They're just as nasty as you, candidate, so stop looking at them"
SNC: "Aye GySgt, this candidate would hope so" (at the top of his lungs)
We all snickered, the GySgt smiled and kept moving her platoon (she dind't have time to berate us), and good thing no staff had exited Bobo yet... it was funny though... I wonder how nasty that particular candidate was

 

[MasterHaynes86]

The guys you talked to were right. One of the major differences between seniors and jrs is the pace of training. You're fitting the 10 week course into 6. Games exist but they are at a minimum.

I know the games exist... I wasn't clear... PICKUP games...

They sucked, i was without a toothbrush until first PX call... A candidate let me use his toothbrush each day... I treated him to a steak on Libo...

 

[theblakeness]

After pickup, our Corpsman hooked up all the Candidates that lost their toothbrushes with new ones.

 

[MasterHaynes86]

After pickup, our Corpsman hooked up all the Candidates that lost their toothbrushes with new ones.

i dont think i saw our corpsman until day 3 or 4 after pickup... seriously... my rackmate was bandaging people and giving ice nightly (he was certified by the USMC to provide medical care and he was a prior)

but dang, ill have to remember that one...

 

[bubba716]

Ok here is mine. I was in Alpha Company 3rd platoon for 10 before I got NPQ'd. Stress fracture that the doc says I had probably 3 weeks before I left. Oh well.

So its the first morning after pickup and we are all running out the squad bay. Well as I am running I am trying to adjust my cover and had my head down. Well I run straight into that small brick building next to the barracks, which knocks me out. I come to and SSGT Koonts is yelling at me to get the hell up. One of the other SI's comes over asks me how many fingers he is holding up. WHich I was able to get right. So I get up and run over and get in formation. Well during all that I split my nose open a little, chipped two teeth and busted up my knee a little. So after chow we ran during PT, and Color's decides to run with my squad. Of course he asks why I am limping a little and I get to tell him what happened. His response, Don't run into any more walls.

 

[DocT]

Well yeah...pick-up is games. Once the training schedule starts though it's not too bad.

One thing...the second time around pick-up isn't the glamorous mind-blowing event it was the first time. Most people just want to get the hell on with it and start training.

 

[Lawman]

Ok here is mine. I was in Alpha Company 3rd platoon for 10 before I got NPQ'd. Stress fracture that the doc says I had probably 3 weeks before I left. Oh well.

So its the first morning after pickup and we are all running out the squad bay. Well as I am running I am trying to adjust my cover and had my head down. Well I run straight into that small brick building next to the barracks, which knocks me out. I come to and SSGT Koonts is yelling at me to get the hell up. One of the other SI's comes over asks me how many fingers he is holding up. WHich I was able to get right. So I get up and run over and get in formation. Well during all that I split my nose open a little, chipped two teeth and busted up my knee a little. So after chow we ran during PT, and Color's decides to run with my squad. Of course he asks why I am limping a little and I get to tell him what happened. His response, Don't run into any more walls.

I remember that day.

 

[MasterHaynes86]

Ok here is mine. I was in Alpha Company 3rd platoon for 10 before I got NPQ'd. Stress fracture that the doc says I had probably 3 weeks before I left. Oh well.

So its the first morning after pickup and we are all running out the squad bay. Well as I am running I am trying to adjust my cover and had my head down. Well I run straight into that small brick building next to the barracks, which knocks me out. I come to and SSGT Koonts is yelling at me to get the hell up. One of the other SI's comes over asks me how many fingers he is holding up. WHich I was able to get right. So I get up and run over and get in formation. Well during all that I split my nose open a little, chipped two teeth and busted up my knee a little. So after chow we ran during PT, and Color's decides to run with my squad. Of course he asks why I am limping a little and I get to tell him what happened. His response, Don't run into any more walls.

I met a PLC Sr that (the summer prior) had chipped his tooth eating corn... It took about a week, but he was taken to a dentist on base and was told he need to get it fixed ASAP or it could lead to problems... he said something to the effect of "what tooth sir" and continued training... that takes ALOT, cuz ive broken teeth out before (two front ones) and it sucks... those nerves HURT... it hurts to breath, eat, drink, ANYTHING... sorry u got NPQ for stress fracture!!!

 

[TheFurr7198]

It really just depends on your staff really howmany games they play with you. I konw this past summer our staff in Echo 2 played games all the time. It was usually the run the other way game then come back. Essays were horrible to start with but then at about week two some candidate got a 110 heat case and went into a coma. A 3 star asks him why he fell out and he said because of lack of sleep. From that day on, that general ordered that there would be a mandatory 8 hours of rack time for all candidates. Essays were prettymuch cut off the rest of the time. You had to do something really stupid or close tolibo to get an essay.

SI: I just vomited in my mouth. No really I just did, from watching that Coat Hanger Abortion you candidates call a Left shoulder arms. Now here is our new ditty, grab it, now you know and I know what it means but we arent gonna say it incase we offend some candidate cause I know I have 38 virgins standing here right now. But thats ok its a gift just dont give it away. I'll kick a dog off a bridge though, thats just how I roll.

One of the many ramblings we would hear throughout the cycle from our SSgt during drill or anything.

 

[maineiac515]

Oh super, sounds like fun ... Anyways it seems like all that "attention" is just a smoke and mirrors show. Just like varsity soccer in Maine, learn to take crap.

 

[MasterHaynes86]

Oh super, sounds like fun ... Anyways it seems like all that "attention" is just a smoke and mirrors show. Just like varsity soccer in Maine, learn to take crap.

yea, for the most part, it is... but it doesn't feel like it when you are there... You can seriously be sent home for anything, and with that threat there, any smoke and mirrors is reality... its fun tho

 

[Armorer]

Closed Eyed

It was back in summer of 1998 (Alpha company). Our company Gunny was chewing out the whole company at one of the classrooms. One candidate decided to listen to his diatribe with his eyes closed. Company Gunny asked him if he's bored and tired. The candidate casually answered that he's decided to listen with his eyes closed and that he wasn't sleeping. Our platoon staff started screaming him at him in unison. I don't know if he was bold or just slow.

 

[skidkid]

Where did varsity soccer in Maine come into play?

 

[zuggerat]

It was back in summer of 1998 (Alpha company). Our company Gunny was chewing out the whole company at one of the classrooms. One candidate decided to listen to his diatribe with his eyes closed. Company Gunny asked him if he's bored and tired. The candidate casually answered that he's decided to listen with his eyes closed and that he wasn't sleeping. Our platoon staff started screaming him at him in unison. I don't know if he was bold or just slow.

I'm assuming that ended in DOR...