March 29, 2009

BOLC II at Ft. Sill

Later this week, I’ll be driving to Ft. Sill, OK to attend BOLC II.  It’s a seven week, infantry based training where officers from all commissioning sources (ROTC, West Point, and OCS)  train together for the first time.  I’m way too lazy to update this blog with my fun times at Ft. Sill, but you can assume I’ll be having a great time living in barracks again and wrestling 4 hours a day.

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Interested in what I’ll be doing at Ft. Sill, check out the course overview.

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4 Comments »

  1. Congratulations, Lieutenant McConkey. I’m headed to Army OCS this July myself. Any tips or pointers? What did you branch?

    Comment by SoonToBeAtOCS — April 14, 2009 @ 11:31 pm

  2. Good luck at OCS. It’s not too hard and it goes by pretty fast. My only advice is to do well on the initial APFT. If you’re going in as a college op, your APFT score is weighed pretty heavily when you’re picking your branch. You pick your branch based off of your class ranking. Your APFT score makes up almost half of your overall score at that point. I ended up branching Signal.

    Comment by Mike — April 19, 2009 @ 11:33 am

  3. I’m a college option candidate, too. I’m looking to branch Armor, so I know hitting 300 on that first APFT will be crucial. I can PT at around 250 right now, so I hope Basic will help me close the final fifty points.

    I’m curious about a few things from your particular OCS class …

    How many MFE/combat arms slots were allocated?

    How far down the OML did they go until all the Infantry and Armor slots were gone?

    How many of the candidates were college option out of the total class?

    Thanks in advance. I know your time is valuable.

    Comment by SoonToBeAtOCS — April 19, 2009 @ 4:08 pm

  4. We had 9 infantry slots and I don’t remember how many armor slots we had, it was less than 10 though. Infantry was the 3rd branch to go, but we were already through half the class by the time that went. MI and Signal were the first two. As long as you’re in the top half of the class you should be able to get a combat arms branch. About half of my class were college option.

    Comment by Mike — April 30, 2009 @ 10:32 am

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