I am interested in the history of OCS. Can you tell me how it was when you went? What did you study, and how was the experience?

1978 Graduate of 50th Company - Ft. Benning, GA. Still in contact with my OCS Classmate. We both retires as LTC. Intense course - but nothing in life worth striving for should be easy.

LOL...
1978... Got Booted from National Guard OCS for exposing the Instructors Slush Fund...
so i sent them to jail... and Moved to another State

It was mid summer of 1968, I nearing completion of AIT (Signal School MOS 31M) The OCS recruiters called several of us into a meeting to discuss Signal OCS and asked all interested to apply at once. I did and after going through the little bit of stuff you have to endure nearly all of us were accepted to SIGNAL OCS - NOTE: SIGNAL OCS. After AIT was completed, graduation, etc. those of us headed to Signal OCS, which was also at Ft. Gordon were all piled on one of those good old green school buses with bag and baggage. We were left sitting on the bus for what seemed like forever. Finally some E7 came aboard to address us all as a unit. His news was the good news/bad news routine. We were told right off the bat that Signal OCS was filled to capacity and no openings were expected to become available at anytime in the near future. However, since we had all been selected and approved for OCS we would be leaving immediately for Ft Benning (I think it was Benning, may have been Bragg) to begin in-processing for Infantry school. At the end of his little dog and pony show the kindly SFC made an offer assuring us all that each of us to successfully complete Infantry OCS and become commissioned would be able to submit a branch transfer to Signal. Furthermore, any of you men not wishing to go on this bus ride are free to grab your gear and return to your company area. Well, as I looked back over my shoulder on the way back to the barracks it appeared that the green school bus had only two occupants, Sgt Driver and SFC Con Man. That was my OCS experience in 1968, just a few months after Tet. To some degree I regret I did not stay on the bus and give it a go at Infantry OCS. Can not go back now. What would you guys have done?