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Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on October 1, 2009 at 10:44am

I agree, more people dressed up for Hi Mom's, but I also wore a dress for graduation as well to have nice pictures :).

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on October 1, 2009 at 10:28am

I know my guy spent about 215 on pics, he got the DVD of graduation, a few large pictures, and then some composites and small ones. I'm sad I haven't gotten to see them yet but they're at his parents house. They order them a couple of weeks before graduation I think. I agree, they look so handsome in uniform!! You can reorder more pictures once you see them, I know his parents want to order some more.
Rifle Drill is the entire class. They are graded by the Chief DI and then four other DI's (not their DI). The most common time to secure is after rifle drill, IF they score really really well.
As far as the Hi Mom's dress code- it depends on where your class decides to have it. Ours was at O Club on base (Officer's club) which is a pretty nice place- I wore a cocktail dress. There were some people wearing less dressy things, and some people who were even more dressed up. The most important thing to your LO is that you are there, so I wouldn't stress about it too much :) I dressed up because I wanted to look nice for my fiance. I think most of the women at ours were wearing nice dresses, right marsbars?

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on October 1, 2009 at 6:50am

Tim got his pictures too... but they're at his parents house... so they're in the wrong state! Poor guy! He wants to see them so badly!
As far as getting on base for church- if you do not have a military ID (or dependent ID) your OC will have to put you on the guest list for that Sunday. He won't be able to come to the gate to get you unless he's secured and on liberty at that time, but if you are on the guest list, you can get on base. Tim's mom and I went and visited at the start of week 7, he put us on the guest list and we were able to get on base starting Friday night by showing a driver's license and having them check the guest list. You're also supposed to go and get a vehicle pass for your car, but they never made us do that. It just depends on the guard at the gate at that time!

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 30, 2009 at 11:04pm

Yup... I nearly cried! DF snuck me an email just after inspections saying that 11 had failed and that they were going to lose their secured status and he was so sorry he wasn't going to be able to call me until Sunday! Well, they recounted points for the inspection and got I think it was four more through with a pass? So, they got to stay secured :) and I got my short, two minute phone call that night haha. One of our friends over on officerfamilies' DH failed because his chair was not positioned properly, so his grader was upset right from the off. But, everyone passed the reinspect for our class, didn't they marsbars?

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 30, 2009 at 10:46pm

There's too many classes there right now- when DF was there, there were about 2 classes there besides his for the longest time ;)

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 30, 2009 at 10:45pm

Oh no, it's in week 8... sorry forget which week you were in :) ORLP is week 8. So, Thursday of next week :)

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 30, 2009 at 10:40pm

Their ORLP is on Thursday, so they will be having it tomorrow!! And don't worry- this is just like RLP. Some of them WILL fail it the first time, but there's a reinspect. I'll definitely be keeping them in my prayers! :)
Haha no one is going to know what to expect with the new curriculum... it sounds really, really different! so it'll be awhile before someone can write a new survivor's guide! haha!

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 30, 2009 at 10:31pm

The inspection in week 8 where they grade each other is 8th week PI. That's the one the survival guide is talking about.
ORLP may have come about after the survival guide was written- not sure. You have to remember, things are constantly changing at OCS- in a few weeks the survival guide will be completely wrong as they change around the curriculum! ORLP is done by the officer staff of OCS. It's kinda like RLP, except not exactly. This is more of a test of you as opposed to your stuff. For ORLP, all they do is set up their desk display with about 7 things on it. The rest is your uniform (the one you are wearing), knowledge, bearing, and composure. Basically, it's how you present yourself as an officer, and is graded by one of the officers at OCS that is NOT your class officer (much like how RLP is graded by a DI that is not your own). RLP is more a test of how you prepare your things down to exact specifications.

Comment by Michelle on September 29, 2009 at 2:37am

You can visit "Old Ironsides" in Boston harbor. You can take a ferry back across the harbor to downtown. Also, if you've never walked the Freedom Trail in Boston it's worth doing while you are in the vicinity. It's good to see the places still left from the Revolutionary War, all those places they used to talk about in history class. Its all pretty close together in a small area. Of course by western, Texas or Alaskan standards everything in New England is right next door.

Comment by Fur&FeathersDVM on September 28, 2009 at 5:45pm

Wow, I miss a lot every day now that I'm back in school ;) I mean, it's worth it to play with puppies all day, but still ;)
As far as changing the indoc week- DF explaiend it like this: they are completely changing the entire curriculum at OCS. RLP will now be at the end of week three- it will be the last thing they do as indocs- so they will not be in uniform for it anymore! The first three weeks will be all DI time- no classes, just quality time with the DI's. Not sure what this means for their communication privileges for the first three weeks, because indoc candidates are typically not allowed phone privileges, even on Sundays (some people who go to H as indocs are not allowed phone privileges during their time in H). Overall, OCS will still only be 12 weeks long- there's a chance there will no longer be rifle drill, and they are going to be cramming a lot more academics in and making it more classroom time to "better prepare" them for the navy.

Leslie- I assume you are remembering when our guys didn't get cell phones as candi-o's, then got them for a day, then had them taken away for about another five days. Let's just say there was a little uproar from the girls over on officerfamilies ;) can't even begin to tell you how terrible it was to have the tease like that! Our guys secured right after rifle drill (They very nearly broke the OCS record), but didn't get cell phones back for good until the very end of week ten. Talk about disappointing! But, OCS is like that, and like Leslie said, you have made it this far, nothing will stop you now!
Cell phones are a completely different thing from securing or becoming a candi-o... DF said with the class teams that are there now, he can't picture them getting them back early. Secured classes get better phone privileges (the entire class has about half an hour to share the phones in the evening... however they usually end up having to split up calls... when DF's class got that I still only got phone calls like twice a week), they usually will not get cell phones until after they become candi-o's. The exception would be if they get off base liberty- then they have to give them their cell phones to be able to contact them. That's how our guys got them for a day after becoming candi-o's (the weekend of week 9). But, like marsbars said, it is up to the class team. So let's pray that 02 really knocks their DI's socks off with rifle drill and they give them everything back :)

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