Status update for NavalOfficerCareers.com website

by Steve Wilkins · 8 comments

in News

Welcome!

As you look around here, you will plainly see that not much is on this site……yet. I’m currently in the process of cleaning off the dust around here and making this place actually useful for you. Lots of good information will be coming on a number of topics such as  the ASTB, leadership, commissioning programs such as OCS, BDCP, NROTC, and USNA, as well as many other topics I think you’ll find interesting and helpful. I’m also still working on the overall site design and functionality of Naval Officer Careers because it’s important to me to ensure there is a solid foundation in the look, feel, and usefulness before we really get rollin’. I mean, let’s be honest. This site isn’t exactly pretty right now.

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Confessions of a Navy OCS Dropout

by Steve Wilkins · 306 comments

in Featured Articles, OCS

Reprinted with permission by the author, Greg Fisk

What follows is an account of my very brief experience at Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI. I’m not writing this because I’m looking for pity, but rather to offer advice to those who are in the process of applying so that they don’t end up in the same position I found myself in these past several weeks. I’ve also never read anything about what happens to the people who DOR or NPQ at OCS, so that might be something that people are curious to know. True, you shouldn’t be thinking about such things if you’re going to OCS, but I doubt that knowing will change anyone’s plans.

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