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Pretty good article about Marine OCS on the link below."Many would-be Marines find that Officer Candidates School requires a leap out of the mainstream and into a subculture like no other"...
"Becoming a Marine -- especially for candidates such as Colby, with no prior military experience -- requires a leap out of the mainstream into a rough, demanding subculture. It is no surprise, then, that the official reason many candidates don't cut it at Quantico is summed up in three words: "Failure to adapt."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113003273.html?hpid=artslot