The Seventh Week of Navy OCS
Naval Seamanship: Drill Evaluation is held in this week. Do not take drill evaluation lightly as a poor performance may cause you to lose your secured status that you just obtained the week before (Secured status can be removed from any class at any time at the discretion of the class team due mostly to poor performance in any training aspects). Assuming your class earns the drill streamer, this will mark the point where your Drill Instructor will show less of himself. From here on out, drill is over and the emphasis is on academics.
Time spent drilling will be spent on academics and in briefs. You will also have your Naval Seamanship test this week. By now you should be in a pretty smooth routine and learned the ropes of OCS. You will be extremely busy with all of your responsibilities, but you’ve crossed the halfway point and already completed many graded events. You will probably be one of the senior classes on deck with many junior classes below you. Make sure you schedule time to help them out as the senior classes helped you out when you first got to OCS. The time begins to fly from here on out. The expression “the days are like weeks and the weeks are like days” suits this period perfectly.
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