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hi my son is in class 11-15, and if all goes well, he should graduate on Friday, May 22nd. We will be flying out from the west coast for graduation, but i am not clear on WHEN I should have a return flight home. Also, should i make a reservation for my son to fly home with us?

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kdjfour,

There is no guarantee that your son will get to come home with you.  It will all depend on his orders which he will get a day or two before graduation or maybe even a day or two after!!!  Graduation is over on Friday and then he has to check out and pick up all his records if he is leaving right away.  We hung around until Saturday but only because we wanted to check out the area a bit before we left.  Daughter loaded her car up and we said our goodbys!!  Hope this helps your planning!!!

As Anna said, everything is pretty much over by Friday at noon after graduation.  If the new Ensigns have their orders for their next duty station at that time, they are free to leave as soon as they check out of the barracks.  Usually at least some of them haven't gotten their orders yet at graduation and have to stay in Newport until the orders come through, maybe days. 

We flew in to Providence on the Wednesday before graduation, and our son was able to get off duty to meet us at the airport, then we all went out to dinner in downtown Newport. He got a text message from his LT while we were eating that his orders had just come in, so he had to hustle back to the base to get them.  He was headed to Virginia Beach to Intelligence School, and he had ten days' travel time before he had to report.  We had plane reservations to fly home on Saturday, because we didn't want to be rushed to make a flight home on Friday evening, so our son went online and was able to get a seat on the same flight home with us.   Unlike his flight to OCS, which the Navy paid for, he had to pay for the flight home himself.    He then packed up his stuff at home and drove himself to VB the next week. 

Even if the candidate knows WHERE he/she will be going, (Pensacola for flight school, Charleston for nuke school, etc.) they won't know WHEN until they get those orders, because some schools only start every three months or so.  I have heard of some who got orders to report the very next MONDAY to their next station so they had to hightail it out of Newport to get there.  But, if their next school doesn't start for a few months some of them are sent home to work in their local recruiter's office until they "class up."   So you probably shouldn't make a reservation for your son to fly home until he gets his orders and knows if he will be able to go home with you.  Some actually get their orders a few weeks before graduation, but that is not the norm.  

Hi kdjfour - our experience last fall was similar to those already described. My son was able to come home the weekend of graduation (Oct 31) because he didn't report to his next station until January 10th. Although he didn't know that until 5 pm on Graduation Day.While he was at home he reported to and worked in the local recruiting office. This is called OHARP which is the Navy "time filler" if necessary. If you haven't already found the Facebook page for your son's class, go to Facebook and search for Navy OCS Class 11-15 Friends and Family and ask to join. You will also want to find on Facebook the Officer Training Command Newport page. Both of theses pages are awesome sources of information and the Training Command regularly posts photos of the different candidate classes as they move through their training. I hope your son is doing well - it is a very rigorous and challenging program but the rewards are immeasureable!

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