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Comment by Gatormom on June 18, 2014 at 6:18am

Thanks, I was just looking at hotels last night, so that's great advice. They are scheduled to graduate on the Friday before Labor Day so wanting to get reservations now. Excited for this class and can't wait on the first call or letter. The photos being posted made our day! Clearly saw our son in 4 of them.

Comment by M's mom on June 16, 2014 at 9:48pm

Gatormom:  Yes, a few from each class fail the RLP inspection and get "rolled" back to start over and join the next class starting in three weeks.  They can even get rolled for failing something further on, also.  You can always change hotel reservations, but plane tickets are difficult to change without a penalty.  Southwest Airlines does not charge a penalty for changing your reservations, at least they didn't two years ago, and they do fly into Providence Airport, so might want to consider Southwest, if they fly out of your airport.  ( I'm assuming with a name like Gatormom, that you're from FL?)    My son was in class 16-12 two years ago, so the good thing is, their graduation will be AFTER Labor Day in Newport, so hotels will be easier to get.  Newport is crawling with tourists from Memorial Day to Labor Day, so the summer graduation OCS classes have a harder time finding hotel rooms.  Here's a tip: When searching for nearby hotels, search for "Middletown, RI."  Middletown is actually closer to the Navy base, and there are a bunch of chain hotels such as Holiday Inn, etc. that are much cheaper and closer than the downtown Newport hotels, which cater to tourists. Stay an extra day to do some sightseeing in Newport and tour some of those "summer cottages" of the old wealthy, like The Breakers.  (We ordinary folk would call them "mansions.")

Comment by Gatormom on June 16, 2014 at 8:39pm

Lynn and Dallasmom, hope you are both surviving our LOs being in Newport. No news is good news as I continue to hear. So glad most of them made it through the wkend. RLP sounds like the next big hurdle. Hopefully they'll get lots of practice between now & then. Looking frwd to making travel arrangements for graduation but am thinking I need to wait until after RLP?

Comment by M's mom on June 13, 2014 at 9:14am

Welcome, DallasMom!  Scroll down and read the last several pages of advice we vets have posted to all the new OCS Moms who have joined recently.  Also, read up above in the Discussions Forum the posts on "OCS Letter Regulations."   This is very important that you don't send anything prohibited that will get your candidate punished.  Yes, they can be punished even if they didn't ASK for it to be sent!   At the end of nine weeks, you can send them a "Candio" box with lots of goodies in it, but not until then.  If you do Facebook, look for the group OCS Class 16-14 Friends & Families.  Also  search for the "Officer Training Command Newport" page and "like" it.  They post pictures and updates of all the current training classes, and you might get to see your son!  As others have written, if you make any comments on the Newport page, make sure they will not be embarrassing to your candidate or get him in trouble. The DI's can read those too!

Comment by Lynn Baker on June 13, 2014 at 7:37am

DallasMom2014: My son is also at OCS Newport as of Sunday. We were there with him and still in Newport when we call his call. Newport base looks really nice from the bridge and we are sure all is going well,.

Comment by DallasMom2014 on June 12, 2014 at 8:59pm

My son left this past weekend for OCS in Newpor. He was told his class is 16-14. Any other moms with their LO in this class?

Comment by dbs55 on June 12, 2014 at 7:15pm

My son graduated OCS March 14th, came home for about two weeks and then worked in recruiting  for a month up in Boston, with his recruiters that helped him through the NUPOC program process while at Boston University. He was home for 2 days and then drove to Charleston for his start date of May 7th. As the other ladies stated it all depends on the date in his orders as to when and how much leave/time before the next phase.

Comment by M's mom on June 12, 2014 at 6:49pm

Anna: My son is currently stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station off the coast of Seattle, although he has quite a few "temporary duty" trips to other bases.  He became an Intel officer in a roundabout way.  He was accepted to OCS 2 yrs ago as a pilot ,and had passed all the required physicals, but then three weeks into OCS, they gave him a flight physical and found he has a minor heart valve anomaly which is not life-threatening, but DQ's him for pilot. He was pretty upset, but was able to transfer to Intel which was his second choice.  He is an aviation intelligence officer and works closely with the pilots and planes.  He is currently on the carrier Carl Vinson on a short training cruise, in preparation for an upcoming long cruise, of which I won't give any further details, in keeping with N4M policy.   He seems to really like Intel so far, and is happy that he is working with planes, if he can't fly them.

Comment by Anna on June 12, 2014 at 12:14pm

M's mom,

Where is your son now? My son is an IS and is looking to go officer now!

Comment by M's mom on June 12, 2014 at 12:56am

As far as time off after graduation, it depends on their orders and their next school.  Some in my son's class did not have their orders yet at graduation and had to stay at the base in Newport until the orders came through.  Some schools only start 2-3 new classes per year, so depending on when they graduate from OCS, they may have to start school the very next week, or not for several months.  I think some in my son's class in NUPOC got sent home for several months to work at the nearest Navy recruiting office.  My son was going to intelligence school at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach.  He was given 10 days' travel time, so he was able to fly home with us the day after graduation, pack his stuff, and drive to VA.  Once he reported though, he was on "stash duty"--basically doing nothing but reporting in every morning--until his school started, like Anna said below about her daughter.  They won't know until they get their orders.

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