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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
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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:
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**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
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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.
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For those who have graduated from Officer Candidate School in Newport, RI or who are currently attending there.
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Comment by M's mom on May 5, 2018 at 12:46am
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Welcome back, LEANNEJB!
My son graduated from OCS in 2012. So much has changed now from how it was done back then, but we can still offer support to the new OCS Moms. I just remember feeling very anxious while my son was at OCS, and fearful that he wouldn't make it, and I appreciated the support I found here from the veteran OCS Moms, so I try to pay it forward.
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Hello:
If your sending you Child (funny we use the word child, but they always are our children) to OCS, send a protractor with them. It will help with making the bed perfect.
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Hey Everyone! My son graduated from OCS in 2010 (and is in the training pipeline for his department he'd tour aboard a surface ship) so my info about OCS itself is a bit dated. But I traveled to Newport 1-2 times per month for the last 5 years (up until last summer) when I worked for the Navy so I may have some info there. Even though I was an OCS graduate many, many years ago, this forum was very helpful when my son was in OCS and I'm still friends with some of the folks I met on this forum. Thanks for accepting me (again) in the group!
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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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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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