Throughout Marine OCS candidates are exposed to a small amount of training from the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). There will be much more MCMAP training at The Basic School. These sessions are generally not very physically intense, since you will only be doing basic punches, kicks, and a few other things. However, there was a very intense workout involving MCMAP that I can recall from my time at OCS. It has been a long time, so parts of [...]
There are several Field Exercises that you will have to undergo at The Basic School. This will provide an overview of the Combined Arms and Patrol FEXes.
There are 3 components of Communications School that will be covered here. They are all major events and each marks a point of increased pace in the POI.
Before getting too much into communications school, let's start with what the 0602 MOS is all about. At TBS you learn NOTHING about what Communications Officers actually do. Comm actually has a bad reputation because the one or two classes you get about it are so damn boring, and comm rarely works right when clueless lieutenants are trying to use it. All in all, if you went through TBS with no outside knowledge of what the job is all about, [...]
When it comes to Field Exercise I you should be prepared to be extremely physically miserable. There is obscene amounts of weight to be carried — over 100lbs. You will be humping all over the place, dealing with the weather, and sleeping on the cold, wet ground. Bottom line here is that you, and everyone around you, will be completely and totally miserable. The experience you have will depend on what time of year you go through TBS. The winter/early [...]
