I am currently submitting my packet WOC school. As usual, I am always worried about PT. My run time is 18 minutes. How hard physically?

I went to WOCS with Mr Serendensky, however I was 43 years old, one of the oldest in our class. The trick is this: never stop trying. It doesn’t matter if you run 18:00 or 15:00 or 11:00. If they see you slacking off, they’ll pay more attention, but if you pass, and you have it all you got, then they’ll see you want to be there. They watched me fall out of several runs, and never said a word to me, because I was always giving 100%.

SSG Pugh, as someone who went through WOCS over age 50 I can tell you what I did. I Prepared. I did not go in worried about my physical fitness because it is completely under my control - and yours. Being physicaly fit will help you manage the stress and make more resilient- in WOCS- and after. As far as your 15 minute smoke sessions in OCS being too grueling, remember that the Army doesn’t want Officers that don’t have mental toughness - they want Officers that will lead under difficult circumstances. My recommendation is change your paradigm from trying to find out how it compares to OCS to working on improving your fitness level.

It’s 100 percent dependent on your TAC team. They decide what you do for PT in the morning. The rest is really dependent on how well or not so well your class performs. The firdt day is the worst, it lasts hours. I’ve always been in decent shape, I still had my best PT score out of WOCS.