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Comment by Allison on September 23, 2018 at 9:06pm

The thing my DS seemed to appreciate most in my mail besides family news was news of the world (current events - they weren't allowed any internet news) and news of his local professional sports team.

Comment by redheadlass on September 23, 2018 at 7:49pm

I don't think you can send any food items. Although I think my son told me that some people got candy in their Candio Boxes and they were able to keep it. But I would have your son check with his class team about the candy first before sending it. 

Comment by JackMoe 513 on September 23, 2018 at 7:42pm

On the Candio Box sheet that is on here somewhere feom one of the admins, it included food items Can be sent. im a little confused. Can we send food items or not?  Any help would be appreciated! 

Comment by redheadlass on September 23, 2018 at 7:23pm

I put in the Candio Box the Tide pen, chapstick, black shoe polish, a magazine,  a book, ear buds, lint roller, a small photo book in which I had printed out some of the photos that were posted on Facebook of his class. He was only in one of the photos but I did print out other ones that he might enjoy seeing of the rest of his class. He did seem to enjoy the photo book. Also he really liked the reading material and the ear buds. I also got some of his relatives to send me a short note to offer him congrats on his Candio status and I put them in the box. 

Comment by PKM on September 6, 2018 at 12:03pm

We stayed at the Howard Johnson hotel.  It was clean,  rooms were good. Great lobby and breakfast. Close to base and easy to get to base from.  Friendly staff. Great price! 

Comment by CindyN on September 4, 2018 at 3:28pm

djbmer: It looks like the group may be called "US Navy OCS Class, 02 September 2018, Friends & Family".

Comment by djbmer on September 4, 2018 at 3:11pm

Hello!

My granddaughter reported to OCS on 2 Sept.  Do any of you know if a FB page has been set up for class 03-19?

Thanks so much!

Comment by M's mom on August 18, 2018 at 3:45pm

meadow,

Make sure you send ONLY letters to OCS. NO food or gifts of any kind, or it will be confiscated as contraband, and the candidate will be punished with many extra pushups, even if they didn't ask for it to be sent!!!!  Make sure everyone to whom you give your candidate's mailing address knows this!

True story: when my son was in OCS, someone's dear Auntie innocently sent him cookies at week three. The poor kid had to do 800 (yes, EIGHT HUNDRED) pushups as punishment, and he didn't even get to eat the cookies!   I can only imagine how bad his aunt felt about that!   The Drill Instructors (DI's) can be as ruthless as they want to about things like that, so make sure nobody sends anything but letters.  In the last few weeks of OCS, I think the current Candidate Officers can receive a "Candio Box" from home, but it still can't contain any food.

Don't make reservations for graduation too early, especially if you are flying.  The candidates can and do "roll" back for failing an inspection or some other infraction, or getting injured. They are in "Holding Class" until they get up to speed or get well, then they join the class coming up behind them, so this will put their graduation back at least three weeks.  Hotels reservations can be changed, but airlines usually charge a hefty fee to change flights, so don't book flights too early.

Since we don't know if your officer candidate is your son, daughter, spouse, grandkid, etc., we just refer to them all as Loved Ones (LO's) because that is certain!

Comment by Eaglemom01 on August 17, 2018 at 6:44am

I was so confused when my son was OCS last year-he was in C (Charlie) company not Delta. He told me there is never a class over Hotel.  At any given time there are really 3 classes or phases there: indoc, OC (officer candidate) and CO (Candidate Officer or Candio).  To help keep them all separate they each have a different designator of class although there may be 2 "classes" of the same phase.  So usually the first group of indocs is say Alpha while the second would be bravo.  When they move up to CO about week 3, a new group of Indocs come in and would be Charlie and Delta, then A/B move up to Candios and C/D move up to CO's then a new class of incocs come in and are Echo, Foxtrot. Then the A/B group graduates out as new ensigns and as everyone moves up again the new class of indocs would be Golf/Hotel.   And the cycle continues.  If they are put in H class for some reason (fail something, medical restrictions, etc.) then they would roll into the next group coming up and switch to that classes designaton (if you are put in Holding-roll OUT from C class then you would roll into either Echo or Foxtrot class if they are deemed ready) and finish out with the new class they rolled into.

Comment by CindyN on August 16, 2018 at 9:30pm

LO means Loved One. Here that usually means son, daughter or spouse. There will definitely be new things to learn and oh so many acronyms!  Regarding the address, I would address letters as you got the mailing address sent to you. I suppose they may not have split the class up yet.  You can ask in your next letter, although you may not get a reply very quickly. Your LO [ just trying to give you some practice with your new acronyms ;-) ] will still get the mail. Good luck!

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