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HM_Duke · 06-07-2014, 08:06 PM

awesome feedback Lurch. Chief tells me I should plan on being thrown into RCPO due to my age. At this point, my focus is to just rate up to E2. If I get picked for RCPO, I'll just do my best based on my experience as a production manager.

Haasino · 06-07-2014, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by HM_Duke

awesome feedback Lurch. Chief tells me I should plan on being thrown into RCPO due to my age. At this point, my focus is to just rate up to E2. If I get picked for RCPO, I'll just do my best based on my experience as a production manager.

Age doesn't necessarily mean you'll be appointed RCPO... I was the second oldest in my division behind a 33yo female; neither of us wanted, nor were given RCPO. I ended up being given Port Watch Section Leader and she was made Education PO... but we also ended up being "behind the scenes" leaders for our respective compartments. If my chief needed something done without the usual recruit BS, she'd usually just ask me to make sure it got done... same for the 33yo in the female compartment.

Agrias · 06-08-2014, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by HM_Duke

awesome feedback Lurch. Chief tells me I should plan on being thrown into RCPO due to my age. At this point, my focus is to just rate up to E2. If I get picked for RCPO, I'll just do my best based on my experience as a production manager.

I went into boot camp at 29 and held no leadership position. I tried to stay out of sight as much as possible, not really trying to get noticed since I was already e-3.

Lurch · 06-09-2014, 06:52 AM

They are both right on the age factor. You won't be thrown into RCPO just for age...I was 20 when I went through, my MA was a 40yo guy, my Port Section Watch was 35 and my Yeoman was 30....so yeah, I had 3 guys I worked with ALOT that one of them had a daughter 2 years younger than me lol. But let me tell you, even though they weren't in charge and I was WAY younger than them.....earn their respect, nothing is given....and for the younger crowd out there who happens to get in charge of older guys like this...doing such that of earning their respect is imperative. Once these guys knew that I could run the show and I knew what I was doing, I told them, look...you 3 are literally old enough to be my father.....so I already know if something needs to be done I am coming to you if these kids around here wont listen to me. as they were my go to...and they were more than willing. Because everytime something would be questioned about another recruits actions/willingness to be there/and all that jazz...the RDC's would call us 3 in there and ask our opinion on the subject, so this is when their age factor came into play big time. And I am glad I got to meet these guys, still talk to them to this day. But that is what it takes. Age means nothing with leadership positions in bootcamp.....heck, our laundry PO just got out of high school, and you could tell because the poor kid tripped over the laundry schedule more than anyone I knew, but hey...he caught on.

Lurch · 06-09-2014, 06:57 AM

Also, not sure your physical capability, but if you can't beat the other recruits in the PRT....it will be very unlikely you will become RCPO. They want someone these guys literally have to follow....so when I would Max out my PRT and run circles around them on the track.......it would motivate them like none other for R-POC to run a 8:55 on his run. And the RDC's knew it..because in a 900 we PT'd in Freedom Hall by ourselves, quite a bit...so the RDC's would always challenge me in a race or some other jazz and if I lost we would get the royal treatment of a puddle of sweat lol. But needless to say I never lost. So that is another big factor, that and your academics..I also graduated with the highest average in my division, and only 2 other recruits beat me out of the highest out of my push. So, if you can't literally, lead from the front.....in every aspect that RTC has to give you...you won't be RCPO very long...or atleast thats the vibe I got from 900 RCPO's as we congregated alot for graduation practices, drills in Midway, and practicing marching stuff in our compartments with one another.

06-07-2014, 08:06 PM	#1
HM_Duke Newbie Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	awesome feedback Lurch. Chief tells me I should plan on being thrown into RCPO due to my age. At this point, my focus is to just rate up to E2. If I get picked for RCPO, I'll just do my best based on my experience as a production manager.

06-09-2014, 06:52 AM	#4
Lurch Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Everett, WA Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	They are both right on the age factor. You won't be thrown into RCPO just for age...I was 20 when I went through, my MA was a 40yo guy, my Port Section Watch was 35 and my Yeoman was 30....so yeah, I had 3 guys I worked with ALOT that one of them had a daughter 2 years younger than me lol. But let me tell you, even though they weren't in charge and I was WAY younger than them.....earn their respect, nothing is given....and for the younger crowd out there who happens to get in charge of older guys like this...doing such that of earning their respect is imperative. Once these guys knew that I could run the show and I knew what I was doing, I told them, look...you 3 are literally old enough to be my father.....so I already know if something needs to be done I am coming to you if these kids around here wont listen to me. as they were my go to...and they were more than willing. Because everytime something would be questioned about another recruits actions/willingness to be there/and all that jazz...the RDC's would call us 3 in there and ask our opinion on the subject, so this is when their age factor came into play big time. And I am glad I got to meet these guys, still talk to them to this day. But that is what it takes. Age means nothing with leadership positions in bootcamp.....heck, our laundry PO just got out of high school, and you could tell because the poor kid tripped over the laundry schedule more than anyone I knew, but hey...he caught on.

06-09-2014, 06:57 AM	#5
Lurch Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Everett, WA Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Also, not sure your physical capability, but if you can't beat the other recruits in the PRT....it will be very unlikely you will become RCPO. They want someone these guys literally have to follow....so when I would Max out my PRT and run circles around them on the track.......it would motivate them like none other for R-POC to run a 8:55 on his run. And the RDC's knew it..because in a 900 we PT'd in Freedom Hall by ourselves, quite a bit...so the RDC's would always challenge me in a race or some other jazz and if I lost we would get the royal treatment of a puddle of sweat lol. But needless to say I never lost. So that is another big factor, that and your academics..I also graduated with the highest average in my division, and only 2 other recruits beat me out of the highest out of my push. So, if you can't literally, lead from the front.....in every aspect that RTC has to give you...you won't be RCPO very long...or atleast thats the vibe I got from 900 RCPO's as we congregated alot for graduation practices, drills in Midway, and practicing marching stuff in our compartments with one another.