If you get on mong-stream early enough, can you get a bye from ICSC. No point wasting 2 months on that hoop for the inept surely?
If only! ICSC
should in theory be done in the first 12 months of being a sqn ldr - yes I know that many try and put it off for as long as possible. However from a recent briefing from Manning, selection for Brown Nose stream is done through the same board / at the same time as the wg cdr / ACSC board so you will have to have done ICSC to even be in the running for a career.
If you are a sqn ldr selected to become a Brown Nose, you will go off to ACSC, possibly get promoted to wg cdr if they can find a job for you (apparently there are no guarantees that all of the next bunch going through ACSC will get wg cdr due to the cuts), and then have 9 years to get promoted to gp capt. You get a review at the 5 yr point and if you haven't picked up by the 9 yr point you get chopped and go back to being a Mong.
So in theory, you could give it your all, sacrifice family life etc for a shot at a career only to be knobbled by the numbers game and sent back to Mongdom, all for nought. You can imagine how that conversation will go with the family when you get home having found out you have given up almost a decade of family life for nothing. Alternatively you can VW from being a Brown Nose and go back to shovelling sh!te around an open plan office somewhere. Attractive options eh.