Ok, some of you might know me from poking my head around in the D&ST forum a little bit and I've been UA for a while, 3-4 weeks or so. Well I've been at the Platoon Leaders' Course for Officer Candidate School for the Marine Corps. I'm prior enlisted meaning I've gone through boot camp. For those that have gone through the USMC basic training before let me tell you, getting IT'ed may have been a burden but its nothing compared to OCS.
The PT is so much and so constent and there is so much movement that bootcamp, while not a cake walk, is not the same. Holding a billet here is very important and so is showing leadership potential so for those that aren't PT studs, its very hard. I'm not the best PTer but I can hold more then my own on a hump and have put out like a crazed idiot here. It is offically more difficult then bootcamp. If there wasn't libo here then most of the candidates would either be broken in 4 weeks or dead because the Sgt. Instructors (DI's) snapped and went nuts on them. I'm a prior and its hard for me sometimes to deal with some of the stupid stuff some of these 'college' educated kids do. I mean they're all nice guys but they lack common sense some days, or all.
Basically what I mean to say is, this place is hard. Much harder then bootcamp, a place I graduated as Plt. Honorman from which made bootcamp just that much more stressful. I'll complete training with all my heart and effort because I want to be a leader of Marines, save any big injuries, but wow, this place is hardcore.
/Rant
The PT is so much and so constent and there is so much movement that bootcamp, while not a cake walk, is not the same. Holding a billet here is very important and so is showing leadership potential so for those that aren't PT studs, its very hard. I'm not the best PTer but I can hold more then my own on a hump and have put out like a crazed idiot here. It is offically more difficult then bootcamp. If there wasn't libo here then most of the candidates would either be broken in 4 weeks or dead because the Sgt. Instructors (DI's) snapped and went nuts on them. I'm a prior and its hard for me sometimes to deal with some of the stupid stuff some of these 'college' educated kids do. I mean they're all nice guys but they lack common sense some days, or all.
Basically what I mean to say is, this place is hard. Much harder then bootcamp, a place I graduated as Plt. Honorman from which made bootcamp just that much more stressful. I'll complete training with all my heart and effort because I want to be a leader of Marines, save any big injuries, but wow, this place is hardcore.
/Rant