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Comment by Liz on June 27, 2017 at 7:35pm

There is a Facebook page for the June 25th OCS class. Search for 16-16 Navy OCS Family and Friends. It's a great bunch of people!!

Comment by MamaMO on June 27, 2017 at 6:55pm

Hi Moms-

I need your help. My son just left for OCS in Newport RI June 25th. When he called home for the last time Sunday morning I forgot to ask him about his Class # so that I can send him mail. 

Is there a way I can figure this out? I read somewhere that if a start date was the 25th of this year, then the class would be 25-17? Is this correct?

Thanks for any insight.

Comment by Noni on June 27, 2017 at 6:11pm

M's mom your correct. She was sent to San Diego, to look at the program. There they decided they didn't want/need what ever they call it. While in SD they as for a second look at her. Still don't know what happen. Engineering picked her up right away. No interviewing which we were told is unheard off. (I so want to say her name instead of her) she had two do two years SWO, which she did on the USS P. Her orders were screwed up and they place her back on a ship. She should of went to MIT or the Naval School. So now she will do a partial tour on the Big Z. She has been having meeting with Engineering. They are working on getting her in the right place.

Comment by ANavyMom on June 27, 2017 at 4:41pm

My son was a senior and graduated in April of this year from college.  He has friends that started NUPOC earlier in their college career.  He flew to San Diego and then had a phone interview and MEPS and then was told he made it through to the DC interviews.  He did that June 16th and made it in and was sworn in and flew home the next day.  He reports to Newport Naval Base for OCS July 16th.  He has chosen ship not sub.

Comment by M's mom on June 27, 2017 at 1:50pm

Thanks, LTB, for clarifying.  NUPOC is an undergraduate college program like ROTC where they join the Navy before they graduate from college, then after college graduation they go to OCS, and then to Charleston, SC for nuclear power school.  I think Noni said her daughter was originally in NUPOC, but then they said they didn't want her, so she was commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer, but now she is transferring into nuclear engineering after being in the Navy for awhile. Is that right, Noni?

Comment by myvampress on June 27, 2017 at 9:28am

LTB,

If you would rather wait until your son goes to Prototype to visit he will have more free time but his schedule is different. He will be working 1 week 7am til 7pm, another week will be 7pm til 7am and another week 12pm to 12 am although they normally go in early to study on their own time. They do get a 4 day weekend off about once a month or 2 so my son would drive home or meet his girlfriend in NYC for the weekend or if he would drive home to see his girlfriend I would meet him for lunch since his girlfriend is an hour and a half away and I know she is more important than mom...lol

Comment by myvampress on June 27, 2017 at 9:17am

LTB,

Sorry, yes my son is an unrestricted submarine warfare officer.

Comment by myvampress on June 27, 2017 at 9:11am

LTB,

I don't know, maybe it depends on the background of each candidate on how the process works. My son didn't have any study materials prior to his interview although he did major in Bio Chemical Engineering in college so maybe that is why? No idea. Their are still kids in Charleston who have already been through OCS who are still waiting for their clearances, my son's 3 ex room mates are still waiting and they were at OCS with my son so the Military has them working 4 hours a week in the mail room. A local friend of my son's who he met when they went to DC for the interview and to OCS together and he graduated OCS before my son just got his clearances about 2 months ago and this kid never went to San Diego, his recruiter never told him about it. I have asked my son why is it taking so long for them to get their clearances and he told me that he believes it is due to the security breach the Government had when their systems were hacked but not sure.
As far as visiting your child, yes do visit but make it on a weekend and don't make a lot of plans on what you want to do. They are in school for 12+ hours a day and are off on weekends but they still go to school and study on the weekends. Everything they do is on base, they are not aloud to bring anything home with them to study. They are not aloud to talk about any of it. I told my son when he first went to Charleston that since he was in school and his room mates were not that he could study with them and that could help them all out and he told me no, he can not discuss anything about it with his room mates.

Comment by LTB on June 26, 2017 at 11:42pm

submom⚓️pwm> I have no clue how many paths there are... we're just very grateful ours did an about face and chose one to serve in the Navy. He'd wanted to serve as a Missionary since he was in elementary school and we all know where they assign kids fluent in Spanish.... in third world countries with collapsed economies. The paycheck that comes with being in the Navy will be nice too. Missionaries don't get paid. 

myvampress> They prepped your kid for the interview? They provided ours with materials to study and when they got out to DC, they broke out into little study groups the first night and the next day to review what they could. The following day they each had two oral interviews. One right after the next and they were long. It's my understanding all of them were sweating bullets by the time they were informed who would be interviewed by the Admiral.

Physicals and security clearances were definitely completed long before they went to DC. Our son just left for Charleston last month. Sounds as if he's at the beginning of the schooling where your son is at the tail end. I take it your son is an unrestricted submarine warfare officer candidate now?   

We'd like to visit our son. Would you be in a position to tell me if we should or if we should wait until the next school?

Comment by myvampress on June 26, 2017 at 10:32pm

LTB,
My son didn't hardly do any of those steps. He was approached at college by a recruiter who talked to him about the program. He then flew him out to San Diego to check out the program to see if it was something he would be interested in. He then sent him to DC to interview with the Admiral, the first day they prepped him for the interview and the next day he did his interview and after the interview they swore him in. He then had to do his physical and they started the background security check and he left for Newport, RI for OCS school, then to Power School, then Sub School and lastly Prototype which he finishes up this week. This has all taken place within the past 2 years.

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