The Real OCS

good morning my name is master gunnery sergeant Foshee I'm the chief marine corps drill instructor of Navy OCS welcome to a behind-the-scenes look of naval officer Kennedy School Pensacola Florida mission of the Navy prompt sustained combat operations at sea and on land and support of national policy what we do we take young men and women civilians and prior enlisted develop them morally mentally and physically and imbue them with the highest fields of Honor courage and commitment for Naval Service the goal is to prepare a newly commissioned officer for service in a leadership position you allowed to remember closer the fourth wall that you are do you understand that there are three phases in OCS the indoctrination phase officer can it phase and in the canid officer phase indoctrination phase is the first week and that's when they're in their green outfits and called indoctrination candidates finally called poopies that's when they're your chrome domes and they're first learning everything they need to learn to begin yes is your family what is this my first week at Ulster castle was interesting to say the least who deaf was not what I expected was definitely kind of a shock I relied a lot of my prior military training the basic bring the other candidates together as a team because essentially have individuals from around the country most just out of college summer young young my kids what I consider kids now young adults a lot of us come from college where there's a lot of downtime and there's a lot of free time where you have time to yourself and come here and we spend a lot of hours every day going from one thing to the next we're you know basically running straight from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 ten o'clock at night and that's that's one of the most difficult things to get used to just in terms of the environment the first week is I get you call it culture shock it's an eye-opener I was under the impression that we would come here and in the mornings we do a few push-ups that says we go jogging for about two or three miles and then we go classes all during the day so it hasn't been though it's been a lot more difficult than I anticipated your job is not yeah yeah I can say it's now maybe two weeks ago I want to say that it's a rewarding challenge they don't have any real teamwork experience and I'm a military experience they know what to expect all they know is they got some guy yelling at him and what I do to get this guy to stop yawning so they relied on the prior enlisted men to really the rear then bring along and get them back online and make the team stronger this is one of the most challenging things I've ever done I like it in the fact that I know it's gonna make me a better officer and better person I I appreciate it um but I don't like it it's um it's a challenge it's difficult days sometimes a good officer is somebody who puts his men or women before themselves the unselfishness that's that's what makes a good leader a good candidate has to be a good follower before they're a good leader without the Marines here at OCS OCS would be OCS the Marines bring militarization they blame discipline they bring that camaraderie that no other service provides and the students learn immensely from them you can't put a couple get out of bread ah sometimes it seems like they're being mean and they're singling you out and they're just trying to pick on you but that's not true it's it's just part of the training and I know my drill instructor is trying to make me a better Canada and eventually a better officer there's a love-hate relationship in the beginning and by the end of the 12-week period the Marines are loved by the students I think that their the relationship that we have with our drill instructors some might describe as a love-hate relationship but in my opinion of bringing the drill instructors here was the best decision that the Navy's ever made slow well I say from the very beginning probably about week 2 or week 3 they understand the idea and the concept of teamwork because they realize that if whatever they do as far as making a mistake that it's felt not just by themselves as well throughout the class that's where the class structures come back no individuality you function as a team so if when the individual of the team messes up then the team is responsible for getting that individual in laughs I would say teamwork is all the most important things that we learn here we learned that that individual success really takes a backseat to team success the the entire program is we've all around teamwork from discipline then they turn into they're getting the Officer Candidate phase and they go into their academics they get into their militarization and learn all the academics that they need to learn navigations seamanship division officer their naval leadership that they need to learn first thing that happened we have a primary inspector and a secondary inspector the secondary inspect the first thing he does he's come out and he checked the formation to make sure the patients between the rings are correct and during the inspection the index finger here have to touch the cover and they should be looking out looking in the palm of their hand like so this ruler is four measurements a quarter inch on the nametag we got it mark here so you just stick it up there and make sure it's a quarter in that chip up above the pocket and the inch and a half it's all your signal to make sure the inch and a half and two inches back women from the front upper cover like so the victory run is the culmination at the end of their all of their graded academic events before they go into Canada Officer face so it's kind of the whoohoo we're done with the with the major graded portions so that is the victory run we run with the National ensign flag the American flag the Navy flag and the Marine Corps flag and we run as a formation we run through the base about a three mile course through the and that's the whole regiment and all the staff goes and then they come back and have a little ceremony where they are awarded whatever awards they've gotten for either PT excellence or academic excellence or military excellence or what's called a snowflake award and they've been excellent in all three categories and then the last three weeks of OCS are their candidate officer phase and that's where they become kind of the junior staff and they're pretty much running their regiment in the battalions as far as what we want from them from the when they leave here is on our current commitment the Navy core values we want them to lead from the front set the example they're out there to be the examples they're ambassadors for the Navy no matter where they go as long as you're in the Navy they're ambassadors for the Navy and that we want them to set that example so their sailors look at them and go that's who I want to be I want to be an officer I state your name environment and do solemnly swear supported offend constancy shot his faces enemies for addressing say the first salute after commissioning the instant first enlists a person that he meets salutes and gives a silver allative and with our staff it's always the class chief and the class drill instructor it's kind of amazing we kind of joke and say we have little balls of clay that walk in the door and we mold him into enzymes and send them on their way at the end of 12 weeks great it was it's amazing to finally be at this point though it was a tough it was a challenge for mentally and physically and now that it's done I'm just very proud of this I made it through and now you know what it takes to be an officer and a gentleman class two to two so it does mess you you

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Keywords: OCS, Navy Officer, Marine, Drill Instructor

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Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 13 2010