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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.
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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 NukeMomCarol on May 24, 2017 at 8:52am
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Thank you
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Comment by navymom1304 on May 24, 2017 at 1:01am
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My son graduated OCS in summer of 2015. There is a pretty good description of the routine at OCS on a day by day basis on Navydads.com. If you search on Navydads OCS it will give a detailed description of every day for the 1st week. Some of the info (gouge) is old but it seems to get the flavor of what they are going through (according to my son). It is a challenging time for the kids, but my son told me that in looking back on it, it wasn't so bad. Good luck to all of you and your LO's.
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Hi Anna... I am in your page already... Thank you
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Thank you Noni and Anna
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Comment by Anna on May 23, 2017 at 9:38pm
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NukemomCarol,
I have a group Moms of Daughters 2 and we have moms of both officer and enlisted. I myself have an officer daughter (and a veteran enlisted daughter, and an enlisted son) who did OCS in 2012. Enlisted or officer, we understand the differences with sending our daughters off to the military!!
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Comment by Noni on May 23, 2017 at 7:56pm
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Nukemom Carol,
Like M's mom said try to read back the previous messages. Both M's mom and I have children who graduated in 12 and 14. Things have changed for us but the new moms will be able to help with their LOs are either just in or just left Ocs. As a mother of a daughter. Join the Navy daughters blog. The only thing in that site is they don't understand us officer moms. We deal with different issues. If you want you can friend me. I tell all parent to know the color of there child gym shoes. That's is sometime the only way you can pick them out of pictures. Make sure you join OCS FB page. Join the class prior, present and Future. Prior to see what the class is presently doing. Then join your class to keep up an see pictures. The future class in case your daughter rolls. Bes of luck to your daughter in Nuke school. Goose island they say is beautiful. My daughter was going Nuke but instead is SWO/ ASWO / Nuke Engineering.
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M's mom is correct when my daughter left OCS she drove home with us and stayed 10 day and she bought herself a car and drove to Cali. They reimbursed her for travel( mileage) ,food and lodging. All receipts must be kept and turned into the Navy.
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Welcome NukeMomCarol,
Read back on these posts as far back as you can and we may have answered many of your questions already. Your daughter will be able to call you during the first 48 hrs at OCS to tell you she is there, then after that you won't hear much until she gets email at about week 3-4.
Send her only LETTERS in plain, white envelopes--no gifts, no treats, no musical cards, etc. Make sure all the friends and relatives to whom you give her mailing address know this. We have discussed this in recent posts below, so read those.
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To all asking about travel arrangements after OCS, I think the Navy will pay for travel from OCS to their next duty assignment, but not to home. Our son got his orders the day before OCS graduation, which gave him 10 days to report to his next school. He had not driven to OCS, but flew, so he wanted to go home and collect his vehicle and worldly goods, and then drive to his next duty. His dad & I flew to OCS graduation, and when son got his orders, we were able to get him a plane ticket on the flight home with us. We had to pay for that, not the Navy. When he drove to his next duty from home, he MIGHT have gotten reimbursed by the Navy for mileage, but I don't remember. I know the Navy pays for travel or reimburses them from one duty assignment to another, but not to home.
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So nervous... My daughter is heading to OCS in July and have no clue what to expect... When will I hear from her
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