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Comment by tbear48 on August 24, 2010 at 3:36pm
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oh thank you ladies for all your notes!!! so much wonderful information and many good ideas!! and i am writing to my LO (that is loved one correct??) today. the weather report i would have never thought of, but a terrific idea along with the newspaper clippings, etc. we have his entire extended family and friends ready to drown him in correspondence. new experience for a lot of them since no one writes letters any more. isn't that crazy? and my son is in class 02-11 and his father has joined a facebook group Navy Dads so he is getting some good advice from his new BFFs!! i don't think either of us realized just how hard navy OCS was going to be. my husband was NROTC and thought he knew a thing or two about it, said it wasn't too bad, but we have changed our minds after reading some of the stuff we found after he left for bootcamp. we decided tho, that it was better we saw it after he left than before or i am not sure i could have stood him going. did you gals know what your kids were in for before they went? i know he has n-e-v-e-r experienced anything like what he is going through right now and just hope he can dig deep and hang in. i know he's a grown up, but he will always be my little boy ifyouknowwhatimean . . . lol.
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Thanks for the help.
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Comment by LZ27 on August 24, 2010 at 12:20pm
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good advise eg. It is good to know before you go over the bridge to get to the main gate there is a small sign on the right that says pass office. It is a short squat building at the end of the drive way. You need to stop there first with all the necessary paperwork(ins card, license etc) to get your pass. If you do get to the gate they will turn you aound to go back. Just a small time saving tip. Also the first person to check in can see if all the names your son wanted on the list is on the list. In our case it was not and he was able to correct it before those people got there.
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As long as they have the name at the gate and a picture ID, they should be able to come to the graduation ceremony on Friday morning. Hi moms for 19-10 started at 5:30 PM. However, make sure to ask because things change. Also... there weren't enough seats and tables for the number of people there and although we got there at 5:30, the place was packed and all of the tables were taken! So... whatever time they tell you.... come early!
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We also were asked for a goodie package from our LO It sounds like thats the next big thing they are waiting for.Maybe I missed it but what time will HI MOms start and if family can't make it to that , can they come graduation morning if there name is left at gate?
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Welcome tbear48. My son is in class 21-10 which graduates in 6 weeks. This site is a great support system and remember 'no news is good news' - there will be very little communication the first few weeks.(his class had very little) But write letters, send newspaper articles etc. they truely due enjoy the news from home and the 'world'. My LO just sent a quick email and requested his 1st 'goody' package for me to send in 1 & 1/2 weeks when he is a candio and he can open packages.
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I"m Home!!! There's no place like home. Welcome tbear48, like jordosmom and egbot said this is the place to be. My son was in class 19-10 with eg and jords sons. We all started out knowing zip and now we know a little more than zip and as we get to know our LO's again we are learning more. J picked me up from the airport in his khakis (another proud moment) of course he didn't have time to change after going to Beale to get a new ID before heading to the airport. He loved the ensign box and already has it filled with his pins and other "stuff". What do you call all those things? I think stuff covers it. I can't wait to go through all the pics and change mine. the pic I have here is the day before he left for OCS the new one will be the day he left.
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Okay, tbear48, here's some information that may help you. Start writing now and write often. They may not get the letters right away, but when they are allowed mail, they'll love the stockpile that awaits them. Absolutely no packages! Nothing! If they receive one, they have to open it in front of everyone and their Drill Instructors (DI's) and then they are somewhat humiliated! Later on, after they become a candio (at week 9), they can receive packages! Don't fret if you don't hear from your LO. They're not allowed to call often and the calls are in public so they don't want to convey too much personal information. Hang on to this site and if you want, start a site for your son's class. I don't know what his class number is but I'm thinking it's 02-11. My son was in 19-10 and just graduated this past Friday. So many wonderful women helped me out when I didn't know a thing. Now I'm an OCS know-it-all!! Continue to ask questions and don't worry if they seem silly to you... no one will ever think that because we have all been in that same boat or ship :)
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my husband said to stop callling it ocs bootcamp. just ocs. sorry. see - i know nothing!!!
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hi all. my son just left for ocs bootcamp in rhode island on sunday a.m. i am completely lost about all this stuff!! we got a short terse phone call last night at around 10 p.m. - barely said who he was just "here's my address - write it down!!" as tho someone was ready to yank the phone out of his hand! lol. what is it like during bootcamp? can we write to him now or do we have to wait? what kind of things can we send him? anything? nothing? oooo - and i inadvertently got in on a chat for moms of enlisted men/women - kinda chilly when they found out i was the mother of an OCS kid. told me that boot camp for enlisted is way tougher than for OCS - funny, i had heard it was the other way around, but as i said - i know very little about all of this! would love to hear from anybody who's in the same "boat" haha.
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