Week Five of Navy Officer Candidate School

The Fifth Week of Navy OCS

RLP is Over, HooYah! Once RLP is over with and most have passed, you will feel a huge load has been taken off of your chest. RLP is probably the most stressful evolution at OCS. 

Most of your time this week will still be spent on academics. Drill will also become increasing important as your Drill Competition occurs in Week 7. You will eat, sleep, and breathe drill. You will notice that your Drill Instructor is easing up. His objective at this point is no longer “weeding,” but rather, instruction. His goal is the drill streamer (most classes get this). It would be wise for your class to practice drill on your own time (remember how that free time at night quickly fills up…). Drill can be performed inside the battalions, but if possible, see if you can arrange a Candidate Officer liaison to escort your class while you drill outside. Don’t forget about studying for academics this week though. There aren’t any tests, but it is a good opportunity to get ahead of schedule.

You may have your mid-PRT this week, although the date is very flexible and may occur on the 6th week. Just like the in-PRT, you will want to make sure you pass this one as failing a PRT or not having good PT performance can be reason to roll to a later class. You should see improvement in your scores as you have been doing regular PT for 2-3 weeks now.