Comments and Submissions Off

Posted June 18th, 2011; Written by Doug

Hey,

Just a quick note: comments and story submissions have been turned off. I haven’t really emptied SPAM since about February, and I just checked in and I had over 8,000. Suffice it to say that I will not be sorting through 8,000 comments looking for the stray three or four that might be legit. If you commented, sorry, but your comment got deleted.

Also, I have turned off the story submission because that was getting hit by spam too.

If you still want to submit a story or just contact me, email:

aocsinfo@gmail.com

Thanks

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Happy New Year!

Posted January 4th, 2011; Written by Doug

Just a quick note to say Happy New Year!

Since I haven’t updated since July, I thought I’d also give a quick update. I graduated BOLC B last October as an Ordnance Officer, and am now back at work in my civilian career.

I'm on the right!

I’ve also never really given much indication of what kind of traffic this site receives, so I’ll do that now. Since I launched this site in August 2009, I have received over 5,500 unique visitors. These visitors have looked at more than 87,000 pages and have spent an average of 9:52 on the site. That is around 50,000 minutes, or 833 hours, or 35 days worth of reading time since this site launched!

I’ve said it before, but I’m thrilled that others have benefited from my shared experiences. That being said, I know that they become less and less relevant as OCS changes. Still, I hope they are useful for a few more years to come, as they still give a decent overview of what to expect.

So are you in OCS now (enjoy the experience while you can!,) or have you recently graduated? How have things changed since I graduated? Leave a note in the comments if you have time!

As always, thanks for reading!

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‘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.

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‘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 OCS Contributor

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 OCS Contributor

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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