I did IOBC in 1975 after graduating from ROTC. July-October; it was 12 weeks if I remember correctly. A few West Pointers, quite a few ROTC, and a bunch of Active and Reserve component OCS. It was a nice mix. Did an active tour at Benning, got out then went 19 more years in the National Guard.
It was IOBC when I went. My class had a bunch of OCS grads, mostly ROTC and one west pointer. If you were an OCS grad, you had seen most of the training. It was physically demanding. We had a few that asked for re-branch. Back then to go to flight school you had to be a combat arms officer. My class was an XM class. Prior there was a division of mech and light. My class combined the two. We were told when the class started, so we started in early September and graduated in late May. It was a long course. We briefed from the Ranger Handbook and 6-7. Nothing fancy. The majority of the class was going to Ranger school after graduation if you hadn't already been. Those poor guys got a delayed report time the day of graduation. They were beaten by the end of RS. Truthfully we had a tight group of guys who went out to eat three nights a week, drank all the beer the Ibar had and hit either Auburn University or Panama city on our free weekends. I still have a bunch of close friends from IOBC. Great video! It sounds like it's changed a little, but the gist is the same - forge combat officers!
I can't believe this info is free. As a current ADO G2G, the future is bright but also extremely unclear (if you know what I mean.) I have so many questions concerning IBOLC to Ranger School/Follow on Training, etc. Your videos are awesome because of how easy they are to digest and I appreciate that a lot, Thank You!
Fantastic video and great tips 💪 I was international officer from Serbia 🇷🇸... Young 2LT in Class 06/10 from May to Sep 2010. Great time in Fort Benning with my American friends 💪 How I remember IBOLC "Going on the field on week days... And drinking on the weekends" 😂 💪 Regards from Serbian Armed Forces Infantry Major 🖐️
My father was an old school architect drafter trained in the 50s. He used all those compasses and stencils and stuff. I remember him showing me all that! That brings me back! 😃
I graduated in 2002. I'd imagine a lot has changed but if I could go back in time and give myself one piece of advice it would be not to rely on the PT program to get you ready for Ranger School, especially with regard to push-ups. It was 95% focused on running and rucking.
Great content, Sir! Thank you for making these. Just found your channel and subscribed. Watched a few videos and then found this one. Just commissioned last week, heading to IBOLC beginning of next month.
Love the content been watching for a while now. Checked out the podcast you were on a month ago super enlightening. Was wondering if you would do a vid about your life in the army up until now what your best take aways have been and what your up to know in your current command. Great vids keep em up !
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I leave in November, few questions; 1. As far as field time, do you always have weekends off? 2. What do you know about National Guard taking Ranger Slots ? 3. How is Land Navigation? It’s not my best skill. Thank you for your time sir.
1. You get most weekends off. 2. You should be able to get a slot as long as your unit is good with it. 3. You’ll get tons of practice, you’ll be good to go don’t stress it!
As an LT, absolutely. I always trained with my platoon, got to do the Best Ranger Competition, Pathfinder, and some other cool things. Once you make CPT though, and take company command, not so much...
Maybe he was trained in the 60s or 70s. My bad. He said it was the style back then for all the college engineer guys to have flat top buzz cuts and they would hang slide rules from they’re belts with pocket protectors! I guess they thought that the ladies loved that!😆
I have just graduated IBOLC 05/2022 (Attack Company) as IMSO. We received a lot of yours recycled guys :D . Well preRanger IBOLC was fun ... 30% recycled. PS. They already lowered again some standards for new classes.
I think for me personally, it’s tough to find myself among peers that have the same experience or same age, since I had been in 10 years before commissioning. So it is harder to relate in a smaller population pool of peers.
Same here. I have been in the military for about 10yrs. I’m transitioning from Enlisted to Officer and I kinda wanna know what are the greatest challenges that a Officer in the Army could have.
I recently finished OCS and am going to IBOLC at the end of the year. You talk about physically demanding, that scares me because I'm a small guy. 160 pounds. I've done 12 mile ruck marches in OCS and they were rough. 16 miles sounds scary. Is there organized PT and PT tests or do they just trust you are doing it on your own?
What would you give advise to as someone who has aspirations to be in the SOF community? And afterwards transtion into law enforcement as a federal agent. Would age be a problem? Would you reccomding switching to natural guard or reserve vs getting out??
Are you an 11A i imagine your one of the best PLS and anyone would be lucky to have you with your ramger tab and your UA-cam channel and all youe experience and info etc
I can only talk from the experience of being a 09 Sierra MOS ( I did BCT, came out as an E4, then did OCS Phase 0, then made my E5 then went OCS accelerated, commissioned and now leaving for IBOLC in roughly a month)... but I went through OCS with a lot of E7's and E8's, and they had a hard time with the "corrective training" and the smoking after being a senior NCO for so long. So my advice is go Green to Gold or WOCS as quickly as possible. If you're already E7, you'll still get O1E status upon commission. Commission now, don't wait
@@GrittySoldier yes sir ! There was a movie about him he was played by Mel Gibson the movie was I think when we were soldiers or something like that . The whole battalion came in on choppers to a lz and they were surrounded by nva and vc . They were coming to rescue a sister battalion . It's a true story you might have seen it .
Iobc is conducted mostly in the field in the woods did you have any training that would prepare you to fight in an urban setting as if you were going to Iraq ?
@@cheeseman7453 yeah very familiar with that. The movie is actually based on a book he wrote “We where Soldier Once… and Young” Great read if you ever get to it. LTG Moore was a great leader, I think of the name change must happen, it would be any honor to have it be named after him.
I did IOBC in 1975 after graduating from ROTC. July-October; it was 12 weeks if I remember correctly. A few West Pointers, quite a few ROTC, and a bunch of Active and Reserve component OCS. It was a nice mix. Did an active tour at Benning, got out then went 19 more years in the National Guard.
It was IOBC when I went. My class had a bunch of OCS grads, mostly ROTC and one west pointer. If you were an OCS grad, you had seen most of the training. It was physically demanding. We had a few that asked for re-branch. Back then to go to flight school you had to be a combat arms officer. My class was an XM class. Prior there was a division of mech and light. My class combined the two. We were told when the class started, so we started in early September and graduated in late May. It was a long course. We briefed from the Ranger Handbook and 6-7. Nothing fancy. The majority of the class was going to Ranger school after graduation if you hadn't already been. Those poor guys got a delayed report time the day of graduation. They were beaten by the end of RS.
Truthfully we had a tight group of guys who went out to eat three nights a week, drank all the beer the Ibar had and hit either Auburn University or Panama city on our free weekends. I still have a bunch of close friends from IOBC.
Great video! It sounds like it's changed a little, but the gist is the same - forge combat officers!
I can't believe this info is free. As a current ADO G2G, the future is bright but also extremely unclear (if you know what I mean.) I have so many questions concerning IBOLC to Ranger School/Follow on Training, etc. Your videos are awesome because of how easy they are to digest and I appreciate that a lot, Thank You!
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@@GrittySoldier How long is IBOLC? I heard its 17 weeks long?
Fantastic video and great tips 💪 I was international officer from Serbia 🇷🇸... Young 2LT in Class 06/10 from May to Sep 2010. Great time in Fort Benning with my American friends 💪
How I remember IBOLC "Going on the field on week days... And drinking on the weekends" 😂 💪
Regards from Serbian Armed Forces Infantry Major 🖐️
Thanks for the support Sir! Glad you had the chance to come to the US and train with us!!!
My father was an old school architect drafter trained in the 50s. He used all those compasses and stencils and stuff. I remember him showing me all that! That brings me back! 😃
I graduated in 2002. I'd imagine a lot has changed but if I could go back in time and give myself one piece of advice it would be not to rely on the PT program to get you ready for Ranger School, especially with regard to push-ups. It was 95% focused on running and rucking.
I agree
Good times man. Happy to see you paying it forward.
Hope all is well brother!
Before you said your sock shoe combo I was like Garmot fox rivers and then you said “Garmot Fox river” and I was like hell yeah.
😆 Best combo out there IMO
You gonna blow up soon man🔥 keep up the amazing content !
Thanks brother! I’ve always liked helping Soldiers out, I just finally found a good outlet! 💪
Spread the word for me! 👍
This video was super insightful and helpful . Thank you
-current cadet ,
Future Active Duty IN Officer c/o 2023
Great content, Sir! Thank you for making these. Just found your channel and subscribed. Watched a few videos and then found this one. Just commissioned last week, heading to IBOLC beginning of next month.
Awesome man, glad you found the channel!
Good luck!
Great video! Thank you for sharing the knowledge. Would love to see one of these for OCS!
I have some buddies that I think would have some good insight on that.
Love the content been watching for a while now. Checked out the podcast you were on a month ago super enlightening. Was wondering if you would do a vid about your life in the army up until now what your best take aways have been and what your up to know in your current command. Great vids keep em up !
I’m going to definitely do that, I think I’ll need to make it a “series” though because there is a lot to talk about... working it though!
IT was IOBC when I went(summer of 1971) There were 135 West Pointers in my IOBC class. IOBC was 8 weeks long.
Thank you so much Sir for the info your a game changer HOOAH 🇺🇸💯
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Edit: I love my work harder shirt too. Definitely buying more. Will u potentially make coyote brown ones too!?
LOL. Got you bro! 👍
Working on that. Looking at going with Gildan or soffee.
@@GrittySoldier next level is another good one. Might be a little pricier but the quality is nice and very soft. A lot of my shirts are next level
Hey man 2 more questions for you 1. Have you ever met or gone on a mission with navy SWCCS 2. Do you watch general discharge on UA-cam?
I leave in November, few questions;
1. As far as field time, do you always have weekends off?
2. What do you know about National Guard taking Ranger Slots ?
3. How is Land Navigation? It’s not my best skill.
Thank you for your time sir.
1. You get most weekends off.
2. You should be able to get a slot as long as your unit is good with it.
3. You’ll get tons of practice, you’ll be good to go don’t stress it!
Good luck to you
My Son is In processing there now....Add the links for the recommended gear...Thank you!!!
Great shirt.
Does an infantry officer do some of the same hands on stuff as then enlisted people? Thank you in advance and thank you for the amazing often videos!
As an LT, absolutely. I always trained with my platoon, got to do the Best Ranger Competition, Pathfinder, and some other cool things. Once you make CPT though, and take company command, not so much...
Got it much appreciated
I am excited for that treadmill video! Keep up the good work!
Maybe he was trained in the 60s or 70s. My bad. He said it was the style back then for all the college engineer guys to have flat top buzz cuts and they would hang slide rules from they’re belts with pocket protectors! I guess they thought that the ladies loved that!😆
wait til you get to the NEW IBOLC (preranger). If you get Baker Co, enjoy ;)
I have just graduated IBOLC 05/2022 (Attack Company) as IMSO. We received a lot of yours recycled guys :D . Well preRanger IBOLC was fun ... 30% recycled.
PS. They already lowered again some standards for new classes.
How old were you when you commissioned? Awesome content!!
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Great content. What’s the greatest challenge as a Officer in the Army?
I think for me personally, it’s tough to find myself among peers that have the same experience or same age, since I had been in 10 years before commissioning. So it is harder to relate in a smaller population pool of peers.
Same here. I have been in the military for about 10yrs. I’m transitioning from Enlisted to Officer and I kinda wanna know what are the greatest challenges that a Officer in the Army could have.
Watching this video I see your air assault school graduation photo looks like you went to DeGlopper? I went there also.
That’s right 👍
I recently finished OCS and am going to IBOLC at the end of the year. You talk about physically demanding, that scares me because I'm a small guy. 160 pounds. I've done 12 mile ruck marches in OCS and they were rough. 16 miles sounds scary. Is there organized PT and PT tests or do they just trust you are doing it on your own?
They will have multiple rucks throughout the course to kind of work you up to the 16-miler… but you’ll definitely still need to do some on your own
@@GrittySoldier Did you guys do a PT test right when you got there? If so was it a regular APFT or was there more added to it?
Gold gold gold
What would you give advise to as someone who has aspirations to be in the SOF community? And afterwards transtion into law enforcement as a federal agent. Would age be a problem? Would you reccomding switching to natural guard or reserve vs getting out??
Are you an 11A i imagine your one of the best PLS and anyone would be lucky to have you with your ramger tab and your UA-cam channel and all youe experience and info etc
The radio in your canteen pouch like a turd. 🤦♂️
😂 it’s true
Is it hard to get into the infantry branch? I'm really worried that after graduating from OCS I don't get this branch.
How did it go .
They don't use Yankee north and south anymore?
How old are you, sir?
Would you say its better to work up to an e8 or e9? Or go green to gold? Or drop a warrent packet?
I can only talk from the experience of being a 09 Sierra MOS ( I did BCT, came out as an E4, then did OCS Phase 0, then made my E5 then went OCS accelerated, commissioned and now leaving for IBOLC in roughly a month)... but I went through OCS with a lot of E7's and E8's, and they had a hard time with the "corrective training" and the smoking after being a senior NCO for so long. So my advice is go Green to Gold or WOCS as quickly as possible. If you're already E7, you'll still get O1E status upon commission. Commission now, don't wait
you can get most of that by winning a free RANGER PACK.
They want to change the name of ft Benning to ft Moore .
After Hal Moore?
@@GrittySoldier yes sir ! There was a movie about him he was played by Mel Gibson the movie was I think when we were soldiers or something like that . The whole battalion came in on choppers to a lz and they were surrounded by nva and vc . They were coming to rescue a sister battalion . It's a true story you might have seen it .
Iobc is conducted mostly in the field in the woods did you have any training that would prepare you to fight in an urban setting as if you were going to Iraq ?
@@cheeseman7453 yeah very familiar with that. The movie is actually based on a book he wrote “We where Soldier Once… and Young”
Great read if you ever get to it. LTG Moore was a great leader, I think of the name change must happen, it would be any honor to have it be named after him.
"being in the field in the weekdays and drinking on the weekends"
holy shit thats depressing. cringe.