OCS Officers & Drill Instructors

When you arrive at OCS you will be assigned a Company and a Platoon:
Juniors are Kilo or India Company.
Seniors are Echo Company.
ROTC Bulldogs are Golf Company.
And PLC Combined/OCC are Alpha, Bravo, Charlie or Delta Companies.



Each Company is assigned:
1 Major, Company Commanding Officer
1 1st Sergeant, Company 1st Sergeant, assistant to the CO
1 Captain, Company Executive Officer (XO)
and 1 Gunnery Sergeant, Company GySgt, XO's assistant.

There are anywhere between 3-5 platoons in each Company at OCS.
Each platoon is assigned:
1 Captain, Platoon Commander
1 Gunnery Sergeant, Platoon Sergeant
2 Either Staff or Gunnery Sergeants, Sergeant Instructors

Each platoon is assigned roughly 70-50 candidates right off the bat from pickup day.

Juniors - There is generally a higher attrition rate among Juniors because OCS is soo much different from civilian life. Juniors is where the shitbirds and bad eggs are noticed and sent packing.

Seniors - There is generally not that high of an attrition rate among Senior candidates. One because we know what to do and how things work because we have already spent 6 weeks at OCS. And two, because most of the shitbirds have already gotten the boot.

DRILL INSTRUCTORS
As far as drill instructors go, they are paid to yell at out. Dont get bent out of shape because they yell at you, its all designed to simulate how you act and react while under "combat stress-like" conditions, do you freeze up and fail or do you react calm, cool, and collected. This is why DI's yell at you.

One thing to know and never forget is never get on a DI's bad side. Everyone is going to screw up or mess up at some point, OCS is designed for you to mess up. Even if your right in the beginning, your wrong.. got me?? lol...
When you are taught something by the DI's, remember it, pay attention to detail, and RETAIN that information. The people who get singled out and labeled as shitbirds are the kids who cant retain info or pay attention to detail.

So, basically, learn something once, and trust me you will only be taught it once and then expected to perform perfectly every time after that, and then retain it, and execute correctly every time there after.
Learn - Retain - Execute
Its very simple..

Also, have thick skin. This is the Marine Corps you are joining, there's no room for emotions or hard feelings at OCS, this goes for DI's and candidates. If you are told to get your ass moving by either a candidate or a DI, then perhaps you should just double time it and get your ass moving. No need to bitch and moan, because all it does is kill moral, and waste time, which you don't have a lot of. So just have thick skin, take everything being yelled at you like a grain of salt or water rolling off your back. Just learn from it, act cool under pressure and you will begin to see that transformation after a few weeks, when that big ass DI just doesn't intimidate you any more, the yelling doesn't faze you anymore.. you are becoming a Marine, stay in that mind-set.

Semper,