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Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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OCS Graduate Moms
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For those who have graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI or who are currently attending there.
Members: 664
Latest Activity: on Tuesday
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Comment by CAmom on May 1, 2018 at 2:14pm
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The administrator of the group should accept you soon. It's nice to know it's a closed group. You should also join a few groups before yours so you can see all the information being passed around:) it's very helpful.
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Comment by Dana on May 1, 2018 at 2:09pm
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Hi Everyone,
Thank you for being so generous with your information. Thank you Sonnenschien for the class number!
I just went on Facebook and typed in, "navy ocs class 14-18 friends and family". Then it gave me, "Groups-US Navy ocs class 14-18 (commences 29-APR-18) Friends and Family page". Then it gave me a "Friend Request".
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By the way, if you ask they will not iron their, or your socks after OCS is complete.
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Hi: All advice is welcome and it helps us to not make any mistakes. I learned a lot this week and have so much to learn. It is true that we are now part of another family. The "Navy Family". You are correct. Be careful what you send. I only wrote letters on lined paper. I didn't want to add anymore push ups to his day. The OCS Candidates work very, very hard to graduate and deserve their rank.
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Comment by Andy'sMom on April 30, 2018 at 2:54pm
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PKM, Congrats! We are right behind you...May 18!
Go Navy!
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We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Middletown for OCS graduation, and it was nice also. Hotels in Middletown are actually closer to the base than Newport is, and way cheaper in the summer when Newport is crawling with tourists.
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Welcome, Dana !
As PKM posted, write lots of letters to your LO (Loved One) at OCS, but do NOT send anything else but letters until week 9-10 when they can receive a gift box, called a Candio box. Make sure everyone to whom you give your son's OCS mailing address knows this, ---not to send treats or anything else. Anything but letters will be confiscated as contraband, and the candidate will be punished with many extra pushups or other exercises as punishment, even if they didn't ask for it to be sent!!!! So make sure Grandma doesn't send him any goodies!
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Comment by jsefamily on April 29, 2018 at 8:14pm
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PKM, that is where we stayed, too. It was much nicer than the Hampton Inn in which we stayed in Providence before leaving the day after the graduation. I agree!
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PKM, Congrats to you and your new Ensign! Yes, the OCS graduation ceremony is so emotional for the families, because you know what your LO has endured for the last few weeks. Good advice in your post below to Dana and other newbie OCS Moms.
Now you can join the group "Moms of Officers" here on N4M's, and also look for a group for whatever you son's designator is, and those Moms can answer any questions you may have about his next school.
I hope you will also stick around here on OCS Graduate Moms and help us answer the newbies' questions. You're now a voice of experience!
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Hotel Suggestion for OCS graduation:
Howard Johnson in Middletown, Newport Area. Close to the base and Very Very reasonably priced. Do not let the name or pictures turn you off.
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