‘Give Me My Damn Bar’
Posted July 30th, 2010; Written by Doug
In the previous post, I stated that the author of the book reported on June 4th. He actually graduated on June 4th. My apologies for the error.
Buy the book here.
‘Give Me My Damn Bar’ and update
Posted July 29th, 2010; Written by Doug
Hey,
Just checking in with a couple notes. BOLC B is going fine, but I’ve been hobbled by a couple injuries. First I developed Plantar Fascitis, which is roughly where the tendon on the bottom of your foot gets inflamed, develops scar tissue, gets more inflamed, etc. It’s quite painful.
But being me and being stubborn, I tried to just run through it and developed a stress fracture because I was running funny to compensate for the Plantar Fascitis. So things could be going better…
School itself is going fine, and if I’m going to be injured, it is probably much better to be injured here than at OCS. They won’t send me home here; if this had happend last summer at OCS I’d probably be at home already.
But why I’m really writing this is I just stumbled across a book that really aims to do exactly what I did here: a journal of OCS. It is called ‘Give Me My Damn Bar,’ by Gabriel Landowski. You can buy it from Hulu.
What is weird about this is that he was at OCS at really the exact same time I was. He reported June 4th while my class started June 7th. I’m assuming he wasn’t in my class, perhaps he classed up in the next class (or I have a really bad memory…)(edit: I misread the book description. He graduated on June 4th.)
Anyways, I’m anxious to read his book and will order it soon. I encourage you to go check it out.
Doug
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BOLC B Approaches
Posted June 7th, 2010; Written by Doug
I am nearing the beginning of my BOLC B(asic.) I drive out this Thursday to Fort Lee, VA, with my class starting on Sunday. I have no plans to do a daily journal again for several reasons. First, there is no way I’d do that to myself again! But also because secondly Ordnance BOLC B is a much smaller audience than OCS was/is, and thirdly because who wants to hear about what I leanred in class day after day after day. But, the reason I started this whole thing in the first place was to let my family know what I’m up to, so I will post somewhat frequently if for no other reason that that.
That’s all I have for now, look for more posts if you’re interested.
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Accelerated OCS – 3
Posted March 23rd, 2010; Written by Doug
(Ed Note: This post is by Brad. He submitted it as a comment, but I thought it better suited as a post.)
OK, AMA-AOCS is over, and frankly it would be really hard to explain it all due to the vast amount of sleep we did not get. So I am going to break it down into how OCS was applied because there is a great resource here on this site. We learned the same information, just a compressed version of OCS.
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Comment Moderation
Posted February 9th, 2010; Written by Doug
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.
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Accelerated OCS – 2
Posted January 1st, 2010; Written by Brad
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.
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Accelerated OCS
Posted December 18th, 2009; Written by Brad
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!
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Submit a story!
Posted October 13th, 2009; Written by Doug
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.
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About Page updated.
Posted October 12th, 2009; Written by Doug
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.
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Editing and Me
Posted September 6th, 2009; Written by Doug
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.