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Comment by CindyN on October 25, 2015 at 4:43pm

Doreen - My son did not get/take special or heavy duty glasses to OCS last May. I believe they gave him a pair to wear until week 8 or 9, when he was allowed to wear his own again. He did take a strap.  I realize that things are changing all the time at OCS so I can only tell you that is how it was a few months ago.

Comment by lmc11 on October 25, 2015 at 4:05pm

Thank you bkell32, he was very hoarse but also upbeat and positive and even said the experience overall was very good. Hopefully H-class ends up being a good thing for him!

Comment by Doreen on October 25, 2015 at 3:32pm

My son will report soon to OCS. We have received conflicting information about glasses. Does he need to get heavy duty glasses before reporting or are they provide when he gets there? Thanks!

Comment by lmc11 on October 25, 2015 at 3:25pm

Answering my own post - he was able to call today and they did put him in H-class to work on his strength, his push-up form was not good.

Comment by lmc11 on October 25, 2015 at 1:56pm

Hi, I have a son in 05-16 OCS. I received a call from a RI number (I was told it's a number OCS candidates call from) Friday night but unfortunately I missed the call and there was no message. I heard that if they call the first week it's not good and they likely are being rolled into H-class. Do you know if they would be allowed to leave a message in this case? Or if they fail to reach someone, will they be allowed to call back or must they write letters with that information instead? Needless to say I am glued to the phone now....

Comment by NavyLew on October 21, 2015 at 10:26am

My son just started OCS on 10/18 - any other moms have children in that group?

Comment by sunnyday on October 14, 2015 at 12:12am

My son was at OCS last year during Christmas and he did come home for one week.  It's important to note that the leave days are counted against their accrued leave, so it's not a "free" vacation.  I think the environment during holiday stand down was much more relaxed for the candidates.  

My son also rolled during RLP, so his graduation was delayed by 3 weeks in addition to the 2 week stand down at 
Christmas, so it can happen and is more common than you'd think.  If your son rolls, sympathize with him when you get the phone call, but encourage him to get back in the game.  It's a tough thing to roll, but it's also very likely they will succeed next time around.  Good luck to your son!

Comment by M's mom on October 13, 2015 at 10:10pm

Hi myvampress.  Graduation for OCS is usually on the Friday of the 13th week of OCS; however, there are several important inspections and physical fitness tests that, if failed, will cause a candidate to "roll" back to Holding Class for three weeks, and then they will join the new incoming class.  If this happens to a candidate, it will put their graduation off for three weeks, so you really aren't sure until later on if your candidate will graduate with his original class.  Hotel reservations can be cancelled/changed, but don't buy plane tickets too early, because there is usually a hefty fee to change those.

If your loved one is starting OCS on Nov 8th, he should be about half-way through by Christmas, and should be pretty confident by then that he will graduate on time.  I think OCS does not train for two weeks at Christmas time, but the candidates only get one week to go home. Half the class gets to go home one week, and the other half gets to go the other week.  The half that is at OCS each week has to do maintenance chores around the barracks like power waxing the floors, etc.   I doubt that week counts as one of the 13 weeks, but I don't know; my son was not at OCS over Christmas.  I'm sure some other Moms here can chime in on this, if they had candidates there over the holidays.

 

Comment by JLR on October 13, 2015 at 3:07pm

Hi ALNavywife.  My son wasn't enlisted -- he applied while he was in college -- but it took about two years from first contact with the recruiter to actually showing up at OCS (he's a Candio as of Wednesday, yay!)  They lost paperwork several times -- which he had to replace, and asked for different paperwork literally at the last minute (the day before the board was supposed to meet) which caused him to miss at least one board.  From the time he actually got all his paperwork in (not counting the losses and additional requests) it was about a year before he heard "yes" and a year and four months before he actually started.  From what I've read on the other boards (i.e., with the LOs in his current class) 1 to 2 years is not unusual.

Comment by LarLar on October 12, 2015 at 2:47pm

is this group still active, anyone OCS 04-16?

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