votemcconkey.com

Welcome to the new votemcconkey.com. This blog will follow me through my training to become an officer in the United States Army, and I will continue to document my experiences here after I have completed training. I have already been accepted into Officer Candidate School (OCS), details about the applying process will be included in future posts.

For those who don’t know, I’ll be shipping to basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina on July 22nd. After 9 weeks of basic training, I’ll immediately go to OCS which starts October 6th. OCS is 13 weeks and 3 days. After successfully completing OCS, I’ll be commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. I will then go through two more phases of officer training. First is a 6 week course called the Basic Officer Leader Course II (BOLC II). According to the U.S. Army Infantry website:

From what I hear, it’s 6 weeks living in a tent.

The last phase of my training will be specific to the branch they select for me. This will last 6-13 weeks depending on what I’m branched into.

I’ll be posting to this blog a few times before I ship off to basic training. After that, there will be a 9-10 week delay since I won’t be able to use a computer until I graduate from basic.

My old portfolio site still exists, it has been moved to http://portfolio.votemcconkey.com.

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