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Comment by NicoleM on March 9, 2017 at 8:25pm

Ok done

Comment by Nancy on March 9, 2017 at 12:03am

NicoleM, Yes, in a manner of speaking. Accept my friend request and I will message your inbox.

Comment by PortMom on March 8, 2017 at 11:17pm

Thank you Quilter for the info! Just like Nancy I am looking for information about my LO's next steps after he graduates the OCS

Comment by NicoleM on March 8, 2017 at 9:37pm

thank you both so much this is great information! I feel a bit more prepared now and so does my son. I will be sure to write him often and will keep my phone close by while he's away. Nancy, will your son's class be working with my son's class when he starts?

Comment by Nancy on March 8, 2017 at 10:57am

Yes, to all that but there is a new change. My son is in the 08-17 class and did not get phone calls until after RLP as CL said. But starting with the 09-17 class, they are allowed phone calls after Fast Cruise which is Friday of second week. The calls are once a week, 15 minutes, from a Newport number. You will never know when to expect it but they are usually on the weekend at first. It could be as early as 6:45 on Sunday morning if no other time slots are available. That happened to us and we almost missed it because my phone was on silent for sleeping, but I happened to be awake and see it light up by my bed. When they get email privileges back (after RLP of third week) then they can give you advanced warning of when to expect the call. CL is right, they do get busy, sometimes too busy to send a quick email, so don't worry!! I have just realized that your son's class will be the indoc class that my son's class works with. My son graduates March 31. Good luck to your boy!

Comment by CindyN on March 8, 2017 at 10:40am

NicoleM, Week 3 is the big RLP test. If they pass that, they are given phone priviledges (not their cell but a bank of landlines which they use a phone card to pay for the long distance charges) on weekends to call home for 10 or 15 minutes.

My son was also not a great communicator via phone while in college. But at OCS he fully used all the phone privileges. I think he craved some outside world contact! You should answer any call from the Newport, RI area code. Even after he started calling home on weekends, I wrote every couple of days just so he would have mail and world news than you can't communicate in a 10 minute call.

At the end of week 9/start of week 10. They usually get their cells back and then can call whenever they have free time (if they get reasonable cell reception) however they are really busy working with the new class that just showed up. So I actually heard from my son less the last three weeks. But that is OK as we knew we would see him soon.

Comment by NicoleM on March 8, 2017 at 8:36am

Hi CL, thank you!

Comment by NicoleM on March 8, 2017 at 8:15am

Hi Nancy, Thank you, that's great to know. Maybe they're trying to ease us into not seeing them. That's the part that I think will be the hardest, not being able to call and see how he's doing. Like most kids and especially boys he's not a big communicator and when he was in college I used to have to tell him I was going to report him missing if he didn't call me and check in but this isn't college. I'm happy to know about the family support page, that'll be very helpful. I hear some classes are allowed to call at week 10, do you know if that's true? Congrats that your son only has a few weeks left to go!

Comment by Nancy on March 8, 2017 at 1:22am

NicoleM, My son is there right now in week 9. CL is correct. Also, each class has a facebook support group. Search OCS Class ??-17 Family in your facebook search bar. Use whatever class number they assign him. We started back in January and they were great at the beginning about posting pictures every Tuesday morning. Then about week 4 they were late (on Thursday) with only a few pictures. And since then there have been only one or two pictures added. We were spoiled at first, so it's been a little disappointing. Maybe they will get better by the time your son gets there. The same pictures are also posted here in an easy format. You can copy and paste the link. http://www.navydads.com/page/ocs-class-photos 

Comment by CindyN on March 7, 2017 at 11:53pm

NicoleM: They do post photos. When my son was there, I think there might have been a week where they didn't post photos but they were good about posting regularily on a Monday or Tuesday. They put the photos in albums by class. Take a look and you will see pictures from the current classes.  If you haven't found the page yet, search for "Officer Training Command Newport".

Best of luck to you and your son!

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