Such discipline. I have so much respect for the men and women who chose and joined the Navy and had the guts to face the drill instructor and sometimes go out into war.
I went through Navy OCS in 1956 and it wasn't this regimented. The mess hall was run by a civilian contractor, so we didn't have to pull KP duty. We just stood in line, get our food, eat, take the empty trays back, and leave.
Air Force veteran here. Thank you fine men and women who are officers in our US Navy. The US Navy has no rival, no comparison. Simply the best at what they do. Same will be said of our Marines, Soldiers, Coasties, and Airmen. We are the best in the world. The best of what America is wears our uniforms. Godspeed.
It seems an ally of ours used some modern versions of quiet diesel-electric submarines to successfully sneak up and "sink" some of our nice loud nuclear submaines during a war game. It was the US Navy that interfered with the US Air Force's plans for the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System. We ended up with an inferior turboprop system because the Navy claimed the Air Force was unecessarily biased towards a turbojet trainer. In reality it was the Navy who was uneccesarily biased toward their buddies Beachcraft and Raytheon and their obsession with turboprops. The USMC is a great group, except for the idiotic and fund stealing F-35 program which was supposed to correct the significant deficiencies of the AV8 program. It hasn't done that. But the Navy and the Air Force were forced to participate in the program to effectively bail it out. So now we end up with all three services dealing with a problem prone weapon system.
i hope after all was said and done the drill instructor gave them some love/praise before they left and congratulated them, they were great! and those sweatshirts are so badass, i would have kept mine in glass up on a wall forever as a keep sake
What is the purpose of that ???? ... I had experience in my army with the drills during the food time but nothing like this ... for as was usual to in the middle of the lunch gives as the order to start running around the table on the STOP you have to seat on the chair where you at and continue to eat doesn't matter that is not your plate I learn fast that first what you doing is to take your peace of meat from plate in the hand and run whit it .... lol ...
@Jefferson Mason The idea is that you learn how to take orders before giving them. It's just part of the indoctrination phase that every recruit in the military should go through.
@Bitch Pudding Wrong, Officers take orders from superior officers and try to make it happen. And his/her ass is responsible of getting them done or it will be a short career...
I used to see you guys in the chow hall. I went to NAPS c/o 2011. I went there from the enlisted ranks with 2 years of service already and I remember a lot of the ocs guys hated the athletes. Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 lmfao thanks for your service bro.
I'm glad I didn't have to go through such. The day I completed OCS. I was deployed back to Falujah, Iraq by way of an 18 hour flight! O7-11G was my Graduating OCS Class though. I never saw one of my comrades again either! I was old enough to be a parent to most of The Cadets! I might be The Oldest OCS Grad in US Navy History also!
I graduated from Navy OCS Newport RI 1987 Class 006. This dining hall does not look familiar, maybe it's changed or maybe it was at a different location. This was pretty much how it was back then. I don't remember much, because I was always hallucinating from lack of sleep, but what I do remember is that we had so little time to eat our meal; maybe about two minutes. We had a spoon in one hand and a fork in the other and were not chewing at all, just shoving it down as fast as we could. Couldn't be very good for our digestive systems.
You sound like a soy eating bitch. They are demonstrating discipline and cohesion. When they hit the fleet they will be keen to details that would rather be overlooked to the untrained slobs, their leadership will shine because of their training.
My God-Daughter's husband is about to hit the fleet and his response to this treatment is "Some of us will be launching insanely destructive missiles that have HUNDREDS of pages. Skip 1 step and you kill your shipmates or bomb the wrong people. This proves you have the discipline and focus to NOT skip steps, to NOT cut corners and to do things right the first time every time"
i am a navy ocs graduate, and i would have been embarrassed to do this in front of my family. glad my class didnt have to demonstrate this stupid shit to try and shock/gain respect from family members. spared me a bad memory
Thing is, once (most of) these recruits make it on board, the shouting pretty much stops. You can actually eat in chow hall with your friends and talk, and laugh, and what not. You really only get this kind of verbal abuse at boot camp in your military training.
Now that's ludicrous! And yes, I'm a Veteran. I can understand all the other things done in the name of responsibility and discipline, but this routine should end upon the commencement of eating. Naval Academy and I suspect others as well, adopt this routine of eating a, 'square meal'. Nevertheless, I believe it's rediculious and otherwise demeaning.
The candidates have the "luxury" of plates and chairs. marine boots in my day had shipboard trays, benches, and 3 minutes to "At ease! Eat! Get Out!" The goal is the same, get with the program and focus on the assigned mission. Good luck to you, the officers corps relies on good mustangs.
Makes me nervous and I am just watching this. Love the Navy. Pretty impressive response to every word of command. Well done. Love the design on the hoodies they are wearing.
No exercise at the dinner time at the table also no shouting no stressing at the dinner time or lunch or breakfast time at the table,get one thing right in your head it's nutrition time not aerobics time you deep stick,do not overdo it,
I am hoping this was some sort of prearranged display for families where those involved had been briefed about it. I was in the Navy for about 20 years, and I would have a real problem if I ever saw a training platoon braced up and yelled out and held at the position of attention in a mess hall full of civilians who were watching and taking pictures.
I went through in 77, Alpha 77006. We did something like this the first week untill we CUMMED out. That was in the old KING HALL. Wonderful time great people.
at infantry officer candidate school the dining facility was the most stressful, dangerous place. you could survive it if you saw the obstacles and landmines in there, kept your head on a swivel to stay aware, and moved like a ninja.
Choreographed as good as any musical play I've ever seen. Why do they hold their arms out before they sit? It would be cool if we had a commentator explaining all the moves. I thoroughly enjoyed this. The more I watch these clips the more I understand why we have a great military.
When they stick their arms out, they usually have their "gouches" aka their notepads for studying. If you're not doing anything, you're supposed to be studying. I'm assuming they didn't have it for this specific day because of a drill that disallowed them to bring it.
look up all your men and women I am very proud of you all the two trainers they will whip you into shape I know them personally and they are the best they are my best friends too I love you all
I went thru King Hall (USN OCS) in 1990. We wore Navy-Blue sweats with sewn in reflectors. No parents in sight at any time. That bullshit was not allowed. Hell the first time I saw my folks was on the day before commissioning.
All of you people hating on this video, this is really how it is. The Marine Corps is just as bad if not worse, you don't even get to eat a lot of the times because when you get your food, you have to pass your drill instructor and give the proper greeting, if you do it wrong, they send you back to do it again, when you get up from the table, proper greeting again, just like last time, if it's wrong, back again, it trains you do pay attention to detail and have discipline, something 90% of my generation and even ones before mine lacks in
Geez....read the title. it is the breakfast before OCS graduation. it is a ceremony, nothing more. I am a retired Navy Commander serving my country for 23 years (and from the comments, also serving civilians who never wore the uniform). Why denigrate something you know nothing about? Does it make you feel better about you?
8 years here cdr. from one sailor to another...thank you for your service shipmate! what did you do? 53 driver here. i would be happy if they gave me a paper airplane to fly if i could have stayed in. almost got killed, but superior equipment and training saved my crew and aircraft
Gut, when I was in the Navy..I had to do what I had to do to make it through boot camp. One time....I was forced to eat my breakfast in one minute without washing my mouth. Another time...I was forced to count the amount of crevors in a brick....and they knew how many were there...and I got it wrong the first time...they made me count again....
brother I just retired after 23 years of Honorable Service with my hand on the bible to the good Lord above and thanks to him for all them hard/easy days that i have had........
If after 23 years of military service you do not understand the importance of good order and discipline within our ranks, the US Army has failed you in basic training and your career.
Hi my name is Lee I’m from the UK or the United Kingdom question what is the idea of this as it’s quite alien to me the only thing I can think of is to create discipline and order.
I will say as a soldier of the Soviet army from 1986 to 1988. It looks like a complete deformity and disgrace. I could not think that we had something like that in the dining room. Stock sergeant Arsen.
Rei yen There’s always that one person who thinks they would do whatever he wants, regardless. This would also explain why you’re sitting behind a computer telling everyone what you WOULD do instead of what you’re going to do.
Millitrix Under normal circumstances, before you hit Candidate Officer phase beginning Week 10, Chow Hall is where you study your gouge for inspections. You have to hold your gouge pack (a small, pocket sized notebook), straight out in front of you while waiting for your classmates to get to their seats. If you get to your seat first, your arm gets pretty fatigued waiting for your classmates to get to theirs.
Millitrix You have 3 major inspections while at Navy OCS during weeks 3, 6, and 9, with your week 3 inspection being the most intense. Basically, there's about 15-20 pages worth of "inspection knowledge" (ie: general orders of a sentry, rank structure, code of conduct, etc) that you have to know verbatim for your week 3 inspection. During the inspection, the Marine DI's and Navy Chiefs come into your rooms, inspect for cleanliness, yell and scream at you while making you do PT non-stop, rummage through all your shit and throw it all over the place, and the whole while you're screaming all this memorized inspection knowledge (verbatim) at the top of your lungs. Anyways, the 3-4 minutes that you're waiting to sit down for chow is one of the few opportunities that you have to memorize your inspection knowledge that you are supposed to have copied into your gouge pack.
+You have 2 cents, Chuck Norris has 1 cent. Chuck Norris has more money than you ... so because you lied at MEPS and were banned you come on here and talk shit its not a waste of time for them thats what they wanted to do with there life
The parents see this and remember when they could not get the kid to clean his or her room. It makes the parents feel good to see junior so dedicated to something. When the kid comes home in a casket the parents will feel less anger towards the country. After all, the navy got the kid to do everything they could not, it made them an adult, abet dead.
What’s with the crowd? And this was way to complicated getting in line. “File from the left”, one command. Leave it to the Navy to make it over complicated for no reason. Ugh forced praying? Never happened in the Army.
But there is also the issue of attention to detail. If just one screw comes loose or one semicolon in a line of code is missed, then disaster could ensue.
I've never been to OCS, but I am guessing the purpose of this was to display discipline for the family and friends who came to see them at graduation. I highly doubt they spent that much time on training them how to eat. This was probably for the sole purpose of reminding the candidates that they are on a schedule with only limited time to do things.
+militia recruit They dont tell you when to pick up your spoon, they dont tell you when to chew, they don't tell you when you can pick up a glass nor only take one sip. We are rushed, thats all towards combat. This is they are doing, is useless.
