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Comment by M's mom on June 13, 2014 at 9:14am

Welcome, DallasMom!  Scroll down and read the last several pages of advice we vets have posted to all the new OCS Moms who have joined recently.  Also, read up above in the Discussions Forum the posts on "OCS Letter Regulations."   This is very important that you don't send anything prohibited that will get your candidate punished.  Yes, they can be punished even if they didn't ASK for it to be sent!   At the end of nine weeks, you can send them a "Candio" box with lots of goodies in it, but not until then.  If you do Facebook, look for the group OCS Class 16-14 Friends & Families.  Also  search for the "Officer Training Command Newport" page and "like" it.  They post pictures and updates of all the current training classes, and you might get to see your son!  As others have written, if you make any comments on the Newport page, make sure they will not be embarrassing to your candidate or get him in trouble. The DI's can read those too!

Comment by Lynn Baker on June 13, 2014 at 7:37am

DallasMom2014: My son is also at OCS Newport as of Sunday. We were there with him and still in Newport when we call his call. Newport base looks really nice from the bridge and we are sure all is going well,.

Comment by DallasMom2014 on June 12, 2014 at 8:59pm

My son left this past weekend for OCS in Newpor. He was told his class is 16-14. Any other moms with their LO in this class?

Comment by dbs55 on June 12, 2014 at 7:15pm

My son graduated OCS March 14th, came home for about two weeks and then worked in recruiting  for a month up in Boston, with his recruiters that helped him through the NUPOC program process while at Boston University. He was home for 2 days and then drove to Charleston for his start date of May 7th. As the other ladies stated it all depends on the date in his orders as to when and how much leave/time before the next phase.

Comment by M's mom on June 12, 2014 at 6:49pm

Anna: My son is currently stationed at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station off the coast of Seattle, although he has quite a few "temporary duty" trips to other bases.  He became an Intel officer in a roundabout way.  He was accepted to OCS 2 yrs ago as a pilot ,and had passed all the required physicals, but then three weeks into OCS, they gave him a flight physical and found he has a minor heart valve anomaly which is not life-threatening, but DQ's him for pilot. He was pretty upset, but was able to transfer to Intel which was his second choice.  He is an aviation intelligence officer and works closely with the pilots and planes.  He is currently on the carrier Carl Vinson on a short training cruise, in preparation for an upcoming long cruise, of which I won't give any further details, in keeping with N4M policy.   He seems to really like Intel so far, and is happy that he is working with planes, if he can't fly them.

Comment by Anna on June 12, 2014 at 12:14pm

M's mom,

Where is your son now? My son is an IS and is looking to go officer now!

Comment by M's mom on June 12, 2014 at 12:56am

As far as time off after graduation, it depends on their orders and their next school.  Some in my son's class did not have their orders yet at graduation and had to stay at the base in Newport until the orders came through.  Some schools only start 2-3 new classes per year, so depending on when they graduate from OCS, they may have to start school the very next week, or not for several months.  I think some in my son's class in NUPOC got sent home for several months to work at the nearest Navy recruiting office.  My son was going to intelligence school at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach.  He was given 10 days' travel time, so he was able to fly home with us the day after graduation, pack his stuff, and drive to VA.  Once he reported though, he was on "stash duty"--basically doing nothing but reporting in every morning--until his school started, like Anna said below about her daughter.  They won't know until they get their orders.

Comment by M's mom on June 12, 2014 at 12:39am

Welcome, new OCS moms!  Dittos from me for all of Anna's great advice below.  Hopefully you have all gotten that first call from your LO's (loved ones).  Don't expect to hear anything more from them until you hopefully get a letter or two in a few weeks.  NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS.  Somewhere around weeks 3-4 you will get an email with the subject "test" from something like "training.mil"   This will be a test email from your LO as they set up their email accounts.  (Hopefully, they know at least one family email address by memory because they can't get to their usual email program and will have to type the address in.)  You may reply to the test email, but don't expect to hear back until they are granted email privileges, usually after passing the Room- Locker-Personnel inspection at the end of week four.  Write snail mail letters every day to them!!!  Just don't send anything else now but letters, or they will be punished for contraband.  Make sure everyone you give their address to knows this!    After they can email, you will hear more from them, but not every day.  Send a letter now with email addresses you think they will want to have. 

Comment by Anna on June 11, 2014 at 9:41pm

Gatormom,

Yes, recruiting time does happen.  My daughter went NFO and she had to report to Pensacola but waited around down there for a couple months before she started training.  So it just depends.

Comment by Gatormom on June 11, 2014 at 9:31pm

I'm sure each of you are just as excited as me about this new chapter in life for our LOs. I've been absorbed in reading all posts in the FB friends & family class 15-14 & 16-14 class. So much helpful info out there. Our son was told by his recruiter he'll likely come home & be here for a bit recruiting before he heads to Charleston. Apparently they're pretty back up there? Can't wait to see them in uniform!

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