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This brings back one of those “I’m glad I did it, but don’t want to ever do that again” memories. I went through the “Combined Course” which was one 10 week period instead of two 6 week periods. After my experience it would have been very hard to get motivated to go back for the second 6 weeks.

Indeed the hardest part was the lack of sleep which for us averaged about 3 hours a night for the first two weeks.

My son is contemplating moving on to OCS after about nine years in the Corps. He's a college grad so he could have done this from day one, but went the other route because he likes the action. Officers in the SpecOPs side are not part of the teams and are basically administrative.
If the Marines would allow him to stay where he is and not rotate him out of what he does he'd never leave. So after spending God knows how much to train him to his present level of expertise they will force him to be an officer.
Going to OCS will be a vacation for him compared to what he's done in the last 9 years.