How do you go to OCS if you are enlisted in the Army?

yes that what i thought it was

how do you make it part of your enlistment contract? and whats the board like?

When you go in to enlist, you tell the recruiters you want the “college option OCS” route. Then the station OIC should guide you from there. I don’t know what the board is like to a person off the street. For me they went through my file, asked me questions about leadership decisions I have made, etc. Couple of things to consider. You must have a college degree. You need to work at basic training to have at least all 60s on your PT test, and you must be aware that if you don’t make OCS, then you still serve under a “needs of the Army” MOS. In my first week of OCS, many college Ops failed out because the standard to graduate basic is 50s on your PT test but the standard to “class up” in OCS is 60s. A lot of guys failed. Also, I don’t know if it’s like this now, but when I went the class was overbooked so they took the highest 75% PT scores and the rest didn’t class up. So you not only need 60s, you will need to be competitive if that still happens today. Our cutoff was pretty high, 275 if I recall. Our class was 66 percent prior service though so we kind of jacked up the curve.

PV2 J M, See, I'm gonna hold you up right there. Whether they know what they're doing or not, if they outrank you, you still have to do it, so long as it is not immoral, illegal or unethical (like shooting a kid for being in the way of a firefight *that's a serious no-go*).

There's a quote form the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. As an Infantry recruit and soon as a cord-carrying Infantryman, you would do well to put it to memory and hold on to it until such time as you do Commission if you so choose: "There's was not to reason why, there's was but to do an die."

This means that when at the bottom (even up toward the rank of Major), we seldom understand the big picture, nor do we see the reason for the things that we do. We receive our orders, we move out and draw fire, we accomplish mission, and we come home. That being said, we may not always make it home. But it is not up to us to make the call as to whether or not we adhere to the orders given simply because we don't think the one giving said orders knows what they're doing. They could be a complete and total moron, but that order they give that sounds REALLY stupid could be the one that saves thousands of lives at the cost of one or two. Weigh it. And if the risk to life, limb, or liberty is too much for you, especially when you don't know, see or appreciate the benefit or the tertiary effects of the risk, then this may not be right for you.

Again, the invitation is open for you to contact me at any time. I've been an Infantryman for going on 5 years now and have spent plenty of time talking to potential Infantrymen just like you and have helped to turn them into hard-charging warriors that understand just what this life truly is. I don't want you to think I am berating you or belittling you, because I'm truly not. But there's a certain way of thinking and a completely different mindset for us than there is anywhere else in the military. We are the Infantry. We are the hunters in the night and the knife in the dark. Feelings and emotion have no place in our hyper-rational world.

Please, by all means, shoot me a message some time and I'll help you get into the right mindset for what you are bringing yourself into.

Oh yea i totally under if they are in charge you follow the orders i just meant like they aren't giving orders that are gonna get us all killed or something bad

Like if there is a field that is full of mines and they want us to walk across it then thats what i am talking about

PV2 J M - you think there haven't been cases of that ? " Let's go see what's in that rubber"

No time in grade or time in service requirements. Over the age of 18 if you are current military, 19 if you are civilian. You need a GT score of 110 and a four year degree if you are a civilian, 90 hours with the ability to graduate in one year as Active Military. Realistically these days, I don't know anyone that has went through Active Duty OCS with less than a 4 year degree and being at least 21.