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Ensign Box
Still a newbie when it comes to OCS. What is an Ensign Box? Where is the best place to purchase? And is it a good idea for a graduation gift? Presently my daughter is in Week 6 at Newport and want to be sure I have enough time if it has to be ordered or engraved.
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Permalink Reply by M's mom on
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ampepper: An Ensign box is a wooden box that looks like a woman's jewelry box, with little felt-lined compartments inside and sometimes a lift-out tray for more storage underneath. The use is for the officer to store in it all of their ribbons and insignias, medals, nametags, etc. when they strip all of these off their uniforms to take them to the cleaners. They also don't usually wear their full-sized medals except on very formal occasions, so they keep the medals in the box and just wear the ribbons. It is a traditional gift for a new officer. I got my son a box for OCS graduation, and he loved it. He still uses his today. (He told us not to bother getting him a sword because he would probably never use it, and it would just collect dust hanging on the wall.) I ordered his Ensign box online at thegoodwoodstore.com. Click on "Military" on the homepage and you will see the boxes. I got my son one made of oak, with the Navy Seal engraved on the lid, and also his name, OCS Class 16-12, and the date of his commissioning. My son is the "toss everything in a drawer" type, so he likes the box to keep all of his pins in, so he doesn't lose anything when his uniforms are at the cleaners.
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Permalink Reply by NYNancy on
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ampepper,
I got the ensign box for my son too. It's very useful and attractive. Here's the link...
http://www.thegoodwoodstore.com/Products/military-graduation-boxes-... -
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ViperGirl: No, the care packages that are sent to Navy OCS are called "Candio Boxes" because the officer candidates cannot receive any packages from home until they become Candidate Officers, "Candios," at the end of week nine of OCS. Ensign boxes are what Nancy and I wrote --wooden "jewelry" boxes for the Ensigns to store their uniform pin-ons. They do not come as part of the Navy "uniform package" as you said they do in the Marines, so that is why Ensign boxes are a good, practical gift for OCS graduation, which is also their commissioning. This is apparently different from the Marines' officer training and commissioning.
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