Few can be Marines, even fewer can lead them. Being a Marine is one thing, leading them is a whole other thing.

when i was in the army i had an officer that was a marine before he went into OCS....he would always tell me "what makes a leader isnt your career history...it's whether or not you give a fuck about your guys. i can tell you i'll die for each and every one of you because if ya'll have to suffer, you better fucking believe im going to be right there with you suffering"

This was the best worst 10 weeks of my life. Funny enough drill instructor pick up day was my birthday. Best birthday present ever. It was sheer insanity but it was what I needed.

The best part of Marine OCS are the dreams you'll have the rest of your life where you show up to OCS unprepared and in the wrong uniform. I can't be the only having these "nightmares." Ha

Fun 10 weeks that I'll never forget - Pain Retains

“ Those camera’s does not capture what happens inside those squad bays”- First Sgt gave me chills the first few days before pickup and by god they DO NOT! I prefer the field stuff then in the squad bay shenanigans ANYDAY😂

I completed OCS in 1983. It sucked, but like the NCOs told us, it gets progressively worse. After TBS they were proven right when I when to IOC. Great training and memories. SF

The best description I’ve ever heard of OCS: “The OCS staff does a very good job of making the candidates wish they were somewhere else”.

"We make Marine Officers, because that's what we do here".....well said.

No one becomes an Officer of Marines until he/she is approved by a Marine NCO. It’s the Non Commissioned Officers who select the Officers. The Commandant didn’t become a Marine until a Sergeant approved him. The PLC course was the most difficult thing I have ever done in my life. I don’t have nightmares about Vietnam. I have had nightmares about PLCs. 😂. Thank you, Staff Sergeant Jarrett and Sergeant Schrague.

Looking forward to it! 💪🏽🇺🇸

Best training I ever had for the rest of my life

This brings back memories of "Big Mac" a Marine Lt. Col who was a mustang. He was in class with us in 1976 getting his degree. A Marine F-4 instructor with Vietnam experience, he told many stories and we had a good time with him. Just before graduation he got a terminal assignment to Quantico as a battalion commander. Over the years his last name has faded from my memory, and I have often wondered what became of him.

Marine OCS is not a school, it is an interview.

Went through the 10 week OCC Summer 1984. Most demanding 3 months ever. If you’re planning on enrolling, whether PLC or OCC, my advice is being able to do a 280+ PFT before arriving at Quantico. My focus was on running sub 18 minute 3 miles and it paid off tremendously. Never quit and show the instructors you have the fortitude to earn the respect of others through leadership abilities. Selfless humble and modest attitude will help a lot. Attrition is high but don’t get discouraged. We had 48 start in our platoon and graduated 21. Best career decision you’ll ever make in your life. Semper Fi

Next summer is my time for PLC. I hope I'll qualify just to go, I'm undergoing an immense physical journey to prepare myself to early the title of United States Marine, like the three generations who came before me, and to lead Marines, becoming the first officer in my family. I have what it takes, but now I need to prove it to myself.

I was in college in 1967 and because I was a history major, I did not have a draft exemption. Instead, I was prime meat for being drafted into the Vietnam War. In my Junior year in college, I knew was going to be drafted into the Army as a private. But one day when I as going to the Student Union on campus, there was a table with two Marines in dress blues. I stopped to ask what they were selling, and they told me that if I joined the Marine Platoon Leaders Course (PLC) then the Marine Corps would ensure that I could complete college, BUT I would have to graduated from Officer Candidate School (OCS) in the summer between my junior and Senior year, after which I would be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines. That sounded a lot better than binging drafted into the Army as a private. So I joined right then and there without telling my parents. After all I thought it was better to be a Marine officer than an Army private. Best decision I ever made. I graduated, I was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant and I attended 6 months of officer training school to be certified as a Marine infantry platoon commander. And in December 1968 I arrived in Vietnam. And from then to a month before I was to return home I was reassigned as the battalion S-1 (personnel). So I'll tell you that in 1968, the Marine training did not prepare us for combat in 1968. It was pretty much WW II /Korean War tactics but not much about Vietnam. In fact while training we were issued M-14 rifles but when I arrived in Vietnam I was issued an M-16. Now I had seen photos of M-16's but we had never been trained on them and so when I arrived in Vietnam I had never even familiarizing fired the weapon much less how to disassembly it and clean it. It was embarrassing that my Marines had to show me out to dissemble and clean the weapon. And I discovered that not one of the M-16's in my platoon had had battel sights adjustments. In other words, accurate fire wasn't possible. It was all on-the-job training. Bad dog; no bone. So back to OCS training today. My OCS training was extremely difficult. We began with 50 Candidates in my platoon but only 20 or so graduated. My understanding is that today the OCS and Officer Training is far more difficult. From the way it is described I would guess less than 10% of my OCS / Officer Training would have made it through . That's a good thing because the tougher the training the more likely you are to survive combat. I made it through OCS and Officer School, but it was only the lessons learned in combat that kept me alive and I only learned those lessons from the veterans in my platoon. The Air Force Red Flag exercise and the Navy's Top Gun teach pilots the realistic conditions of intense adversary tactics. I wish some day that the Marine Corps has a similar training exercise. While Marine Corps training is much more intense, and that is good, there isn't any realistic training like Red Flag or Top Gun that simulates realistic enemy capabilities on the ground. But it isn't against the best simulated ground forces. It's mostly a choreographed exercise where the good guys win. The Marine Corps need to have a Red Flag kind of exercise where they go up against the best enemy offenses and defenses. I retired from the Marine Corps a very long time ago. I was a platoon commander in Vietnam from1968-69. I was a Marine company commander supporting the evacuation of Saigon in April of 1975. I don't thin that our military is prepared for war against China or Russia because our ground forces haven't been prepared for it. Just my opinion as a 77 year old retired Marine who served 3 years in combat without winning any of the wars.

Will always remember my Sergeant Instructors, from the hellish pickup on day 1 to receiving the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and shaking their hands at commissioning. The only advice I have is that a 2ndLt should not act as if they outrank anybody. The technicality of outranking an enlisted Marine is not a practical one as a 2ndLt. The respect you receive as a butterbar is a courtesy that can be withdrawn at any time. I have always viewed my Cpls and Sgts as subject matter experts, and my SSgts , Gunnys, and 1stSgts as a team where each person serves a role, and not one of who outranks who. I'm just a mid-level manager connecting section level training to battalion and organizational requirements, and I need everybody's help to do it.

Myself and a bunch of other junior corpsman were there for 2023 summer cycle providing medical, man it was a treat seeing this poor kids get messed up by the DI’s

My dad was a Marine officer. He led an infantry platoon in Vietnam and was awarded a bronze star with a combat V for bravery under fire. I hope to follow in his footsteps and go to OCS in a couple years after I finish my bachelor’s degree and get a masters.

I remember Maj Hyman when he was in charge of the Delaware Office back in ‘10. Great to see he’s now CO of OCS. I went twice. Once as PLC-Juniors in ‘07 and as OCC-10 in 2010. I didn’t make it the final time so I went enlisted. You don’t go there thinking it’s a summer school. I just didn’t have the leadership skills or mental fortitude at the time.

Saw every single one of these instructors and the colonel when I shipped out this past summer. PLC juniors may 20th- June 30th

I love this! I'm glad there is new content on USMC Officer Candidate School. I'll be doing the PLC this upcoming summer!

Was at Quantico/OCS in 1979 when the Iranians took our embassy. Platoon Sergeant came into the squad bay, told us we were going to war and half of us would be dead this time next year so, if anyone wants to quit, now’s the time. Not one!!!!! We just looked at each other and said “Sucks to be you.”

It’s even better when you’ve got a prior enlisted guy who was a DI in OCS apparently from what my old Captain told me

Ah, nostalgia. I still have my camp stool. I see the design hasn't changed.

PLC Jr., Camp Upshur 1978, PLC Sr., Brown FIeld, 1980. Lots of memories...and some good times, too! ;)

The change is FOREVER 🇺🇸

Thanks

Went thru usmc ocs in 1980 Best summer of my life

Nice to see my face in this ❤️

It really depends what time of year you go also. I went in the winter and I got sent home for breaking my hand. It was week six. Before I left, almost half of our platoon dropped out. I went back in the fall and graduated. Our attrition rate was probably about 15% rather than almost 50%.it’s a much harder time in the winter.

Been there. Done that. Marine Corps! OCS 2006.

It pays to be a winner. B.U.D.S. Training/Hell week, US Navy Seal, Coronado California

OCS produces better results than Annapolis.

A giant exercise in sleep deprivation and extreme PT. When I went through PLC in 80-81, the attrition rate was 75%.

Went through PLC JR and Sr. Did JR at Camp Upshur in 1986. K2!

My Sergeant Instructor’s brother was in my first platoon in the Fleet. Coincidence or kharma? A fine young LCpl, he left for his next duty as a Sergeant.

You have lives in your hands as leader of Marines. Ultimate responsibility to have smart, accountable, officers who understand what their role is.

Please post a video of a newly commissioned Marine Corps Second Lieutenant receiving his first salute by Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.

Was a instructor there at Main side Quantico

God Bless America.🇺🇸🦅💀🙏🏻

I remember the “Hill trail”, something they don’t do anymore. I guess the powers to be don’t want to stress the candidates as much as they say in the video.

It was quite the culture shock in the late 70’s. All of our instructors were Vietnam vets and the PT program was run by the British Royal Marines at that time.

The hardest thing i had ever done to that point, the easiest thing Ive ever done in the Marine Corps now.

Here's a weird conundrum. I went through Bulldog in 1974, after the USMC had invested three years of NROTC in me. That is the Marine Corps spent tuition, board, books and living allowance for three years at The Citadel before I went to OCS. It seems as if it would have been a much wiser investment to send us to OCS our first summer if there was a good chance we might wash out. However, I don't remember any of our NROTC canidates flunking out of Bulldog. Maybe because they knew how much money was already invested in us up to that point.

Seeing if they'll accept some of y'all's marital proposals with what you expect out of them are seeing a Phil except any of your negotiations with some of your stuff you have in yours to participate in if you can't get your targets to a line correctly

D2, 120th OCC. Sheer pain. Very high drop out %.

It’s funny they say that because they are emailing college seniors and telling them it’s an internship

Don’t forget OCS is ran by NCOs. Don’t forget your teachers butters

Marine OCS makes basic seem nice and easy. It is much more intense and rigorous. Glad I never even followed that path.

Semper Fidelis Dear American Marines!!! My Beautiful American Marines!!!! I stand with You all and America.🥰😍🤗🙏❤🤍💙💯💪💪👍

Class of OCC 225. Fun times.

Synthetic Stress. I like that term.

Get Sum & Semper Fi!!

Where are the “chrome domes” we had to wear at OCS in 1973?

Beautiful

Do anybody know what the list of the 38 Medical Standards that the Pentagon is reviewing??

Oorah!!

Went in 1977 and 1979. Much harder than beast barracks West Point.

Not sure about the “screening” process… time to tweak it or improve it. It is nothing like the old days.

Ugh part of me want to go Officer, the other part of me just dosnt want pretty much go through boot camp again

Berat masuk marinir di mana pun. Karna ada rekrutment standart untuk MARINIR

The woods of Quantico are full of ticks.

SemperFidelis!!! Boots 🥾… Oooorrrraaaaahhhhh!!!

I see you Jimbo Miller

Haha cool this was filmed while i was there last summer

I served in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was a Major in the Army! Marines always got our back, always professional. I never saw fat Marine! ARMY FAT SOLDIERS EVERYWHERE

I can't do it

infantry tactics instructor who doesn’t have a CAR is crazy

I’ll be there this summer!

I can't think of any newly commissioned 2nd Lt's in the USMC that didn't walk round with the proverbial battery on their shoulders, daring someone to knock it off. They're not called "butter bars" without good reason. Every new Marine officer knows, per their leadership handbook, that the mission comes before the men. That's how most advance their careers. I wore the EGA. There are few officers i respected.

Do you need to attend OCS after college even if you graduated of PLC program?

Is it me or are the Colonel's eagles upside down?? Hate to ask but its bugging the crap out of me.

Lol what a great last name "Hyman"

Don’t know if anyone will see this or not, but I’m a prior service 0311 and got out 4 years ago almost. About to graduate college and have been talking with my local officer selection recruiter. Really want to go to OCS (even though when they shave my head again I’m gonna be a different way), does anybody have any comments or advice for my situation? This video looks sick I want to go lol

I was in the Marine Corps for 6 years, enlisted. I’ve been in the Army for 2 years, enlisted. Does anyone know if I would be able to commission into the Marines as an officer?

Why are some of the candidates wearing Corporal and Sergeant ranks, are those Enlisted Marines transitioning to Commissioned ?

Any advice for OCC class as a female?

Oorah, SGT CAMPBELL!! V27

The worst part was definitely humping from the trailers over the bridge to Bobo chow hall. This new generation just doesn’t know.

My son is still waiting on the board results for the January class. Its 12/3 now... 280 pft, passed NAMI, what the heck !

1:06 holy great mother of God!! Somebody tell the army that please?!!!!

Holy crap, only 65 days? The standard length for a commissioning course in Commonwealth armies is a year. Then you go a do your introductory trade-specific officer course before you get near soldiers.

OCC-192 Represent

Sauce?

Anyone have an idea what the attrition rate is for the Marines OCS?

Where are the DI's? (campaign cover)

Why do I see some Marines wearing a red square with their rank insignia on their collars?

India go crazyyy

The leathernecks also called

Could someone go to law school abroad, and still become a JAG in the Marines Corps?

What is up with the out of regulation Sgt's moustache ? I graduated in August 1982. Semper Fi.

What’s the attrition rate?

All that training just to go to the fleet and worry about what pronoun a Pvt called a Sgt and it now has escalated to Bn Co. Classes on diversity and equity.. what every fighting Marine needs.

Who will stand up? Like when we pulled out of Afghanistan, just one leader had enough balls to call out the corrupt and bad decision of that fallacy. Need more leaders like him. Semper Fi 3/8

I only clicked on this video because the Marine in the thumbnail looks like Michael Shannon. I genuinely thought "Michael Shannon is way too old to be going into the Marines, the fuq?"

Unfortunately the screening for entry into OCS is not sufficient.

A little bird with a yellow bill perched upon my window sill …………..

Thanks 🙏 for sharing this video on OCS… At 50 and being enlisted in the Marine Corps and Army. I wish upon a star ⭐️ I could turn back time. But that ship 🚢 has done ✅ sailed and all I can do is watch. As our United States 🇺🇸 Military has been totally 💯 revamped by a woke administration. Now 🇺🇸 America has a major threat to National Security and abroad. Because of politics I’m considered useless to our intelligence agencies… Have no concern over politics… But the protection of Americans and Jews worldwide… I was born to Lead… Not to surrender to the agendas of a communist regime we have now in the Oval Office in Washington D.C. Semper Fi