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Group: alt.nuke.the.usa · Group Profile
Author: Jack LinthicumJack Linthicum Date: Apr 23, 2008 12:14
On Apr 23, 2:50 pm, "Billzz" starband.net> wrote:> "Glenn Dowdy" hp.spam.com> wrote in message
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>>> "Billzz" starband.net> wrote in message
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>>> Just happened to notice this and add that any soldier accepted for OCS
>>> goes through basic training, advanced training, then is temporarily
>>> promoted to Specialist 5th Class (E-5) while in OCS. That should be less
>>> than a year's service.
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>> This seems not to match up with current Army processes.
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>> No AIT and there is no longer a Spc 5 enlisted rank.
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> Oops. I got old. I forgot that they consolidated all OCS to Fort Benning.
> But I thought they were talking about the Vietnam era, when they had
> individual branch OCS. Anyway, this current OCS seems to say that one has
> to be a college graduate, which kind of defeats the purpose of "coming up
> from the ranks." This is just a direct commision program with a twelve-week
> orientation course, not the kind of OCS of the movie "Officer and
> Gentleman." Maybe there is no more OCS.
Officer and a Gentleman was a fantasy on the Navy AOCS. Hollywood
doesn't like straight training and people with ambition being passed
on to the next level for evaluation. John Travolta and John Denver
turned down the lead, Denver is said to have called it a "1950's
movie".
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