I’ve turned comment moderation back on. The SPAM has been picking up lately, there hasn’t been a legitimate comment in over a month, and it’s just too annoying to log in every day to clear the SPAM. So if you have not previously had a comment approved, then your comment will wait for moderation.
Don’t worry, though, if it is legit, it will get posted.
Ok I said I was going to wait until I was back.. then I thought I should talk a little about the NG process as it is different.
Really quick I just wanted to say that I will be keeping track of Accelerated OCS in AL Jan thru Mar (National Guard). I thought it might be cool to share the accelerated course with everyone. Because computers are not allowed and the course is fast paced (20 hours a day and 7 days a week for 60 days) I will just keep my notes and present them in Apr to include the Phase 0 we have for the National Guard.
See you in Apr!
You might notice a new link on the right: you are now able to post your own stories about OCS to this site, for all to read. My goal with this is to broaden the experiences contained here. You all will have different experiences than I did: perhaps yours will help someone else out more so than my own, or perhaps you have some bit of advice on a particular event that you think might help another soldier out.
Well, now you can submit these stories and have them posted here. Just use the link on the right side or click here to send in your story. I will of course review them all and then post them.
Let me know if you have any questions.
I finally got around to updating the about page, which you can see here. Still not a lot on there, but of course more than before.
I’ve kind of stalled in getting entries updated and cleaned up: I’ll try to continue working on that in the future. In other news though, I’m adding a major feature to the site in the near future: keep an eye out for it.
Hello all,
I’ve begun to go through and clean up the entries, so the errors throughout should slowly but surely start to disappear. I plan to continue doing this until I’ve gone through them all, as well as adding to the FAQ and other things. I’ve also got it in mind to try to write some sort of guide for preparing for OCS, including what to bring, what not to bring, what to buy at Fort Benning, when to buy it, etc. Don’t hold your breath for it though: I’ll post it when I’m done. 
I also added a Google advertisement bar to the right. The goal is simply to pay site costs: anything extra will go to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. I’m not looking to make anything off this site: your friendly comments are payment enough.
As far as myself, I am in the National Guard, so I am back home and have resumed my civilian job. We were usually busy at OCS, but never underestimate the amount of time that a job and family take. I almost feel busier back here! ‘They’ always say that a deployment is harder on the spouse than on on the soldier: having been deployed and gone for schools, take it from me, it is true.
More to come.
Getting pinned!
Well, here I am. Graduation Day.
Me and my 2 older kids. I'm on lunch break from grad practice.
The day is almost here: graduation day is tomorrow.
My wife and I at our table.
Well if there had been one day I had been looking forward to throughout OCS, it would be Thursday. However, today definitely would take a close second, as today was the day my family came down, and tonight was the night of the formal.
We really only had one major goal for today – getting a supplemental issue of ACU’s. We also finished up our presentations of our professional reading assignments, including mine.