August 6, 2013

is the date I ship off to Fort Benning for Army Basic Training and Officer Candidate School.

Can't decide if I'm more like or at the moment.

Y'all are the first to know, fyi.

Wait for your first night you get to lay down in your rack and ask yourself "WTF did I do this for?"

j/k, you will grow to love it.

First day:

First week:

First month:

First Duty Station:

First year:

First Enlistment:

Good luck man. Enjoy it while you're in, you'll miss it when you're out (even if it doesn't seem like it sometimes)

Insert Stripes bit here.

Congratulations, good luck, and thank you.

Anti-stance wrote: Wait for your first night you get to lay down in your rack and ask yourself "WTF did I do this for?" j/k, you will grow to love it.

Been there ,done that.

I never learned to love it ... but I'm glad I did it

I could do basic math ... 4 yrs in the Navy beat 2 yrs in a rice paddy

I just re-upped again. Only 12 more years and I can retire, which will be before my parents can. know your job yet?

It will be one of the best experiences in your life, granted you wont really think of it that way for a few months/years but it will hit you like a ton of bricks when it does.

This October will be 10 years since I got out. I said I would never miss the military, boy was I wrong. I miss it. When I used to bitch about being active duty, other Marines always used to tell me that "the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence". I didn't know any better.

I forgot to say good luck.

Good luck! Hopefully you'll get a chance to stop in on Wednesday nights and run some races with us again down the road.

Thanks in advance and good luck.

It's OK t be both and . I know I would be.

Thanks for your service and good luck!

Best of luck, man!

Congrats, good luck! I know they'd eat me alive, but I am getting a root canal August 6th. Does that count?

Good to get basic and OCS over all at once. "Green to Gold" was recommended to me, but I wasn't comfortable with the idea of being a private again..

Good luck. Remember "it's just a thing" and keep your eye on the goal!

That means you'll be in my neck of the woods...

The gnats will treat you much worse than your Drill Sergeants.

Congrats, and thank you.

Congrats. First week you will be asking yourself "why did I do this again?"

Hopefully it all works out, had a friend go in for the same thing and when it was time to go to OCS the Army told him "well the Army needs you here on the enlisted side"

Did you get an MOS yet?

my brother got out after 2 enlistments, his now ex wife talked him into it. says he made a huge mistake getting out, he loved it. but then he likes jumping out of airplanes...

My MOS at the moment is O9S (Commissioned Officer Candidate), and that's in my contract, so I shouldn't have any trouble with being reassigned after Basic...

They'll give me my real job assignment when I graduate OCS. Have a few preferences picked out, but at the end of the day it will be the Army's decision.

Two weeks to ship date. Brings a whole new meaning to "so much to do, so little time".

JohnInKansas wrote: My MOS at the moment is O9S (Commissioned Officer Candidate), and that's in my contract, so I *shouldn't* have any trouble with being reassigned after Basic... They'll give me my real job assignment when I graduate OCS. Have a few preferences picked out, but at the end of the day it will be the Army's decision. Two weeks to ship date. Brings a whole new meaning to "so much to do, so little time".

keep in mind ... that'll depend on how you do in Basic ... if you bust out (berkeley up) you'll fulfill you contract as an enlisted man

good luck .. keep your nose clean ... learn as much as you can

when you get through OCS and get into the field, keep in mind that your senior non-coms usually know more than you do ... it takes a while ..listen to them, you'll be a better officer for it

My friend, a very senior NCO (Ret now), had lieutenants working for him. He said sometimes the conversations went: "You dumb berkeleyer, what the hell are you doing? ... Sir."

Good Luck!! And if you find yourself in a hostile environment, please keep your head down.

Good Luck! I've been an active-duty Army officer for 6 years now with a couple of deployments. There are good times and bad, just like anything. I'm choosing to get out in about a year and a half, but that's me. The best advice I can give you for basic and OCS is: be in the right place, at the right time, in the right uniform and you can't go wrong. Don't be THAT guy. As much as the training environment sucks, it can be a lot of fun if you are in decent shape and you have a "hooah" attitude.

Dr. Hess wrote: My friend, a very senior NCO (Ret now), had lieutenants working for him. He said sometimes the conversations went: "You dumb berkeleyer, what the hell are you doing? ... Sir." Good Luck!! And if you find yourself in a hostile environment, please keep your head down.

A large part of a good senior NCOs job is teaching young officers how to do theirs properly.

Brett_Murphy wrote:

Dr. Hess wrote: My friend, a very senior NCO (Ret now), had lieutenants working for him. He said sometimes the conversations went: "You dumb berkeleyer, what the hell are you doing? ... Sir." Good Luck!! And if you find yourself in a hostile environment, please keep your head down.

A large part of a good senior NCOs job is teaching young officers how to do theirs properly.

So true. I mean what do you expect when you have a 38 year old SNCO working with an OIC that is 22 years old. There will be some learning on the "butterbar's" part.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC8z39gyWw4

Seriously, though..respect. Thanks for taking the plunge, and good luck!