Physical Fitness Standards

Students must be within Navy Body Fat Standards upon arrival to ODS. Students not within standards may not graduate from Officer Development School. Navy Body Composition Assessment

 Check-In Procedures

Lodging in King Hall is available upon check-in.  If you have questions understanding your orders, contact your detailer or program manager. If you continue to require clarification of your orders or if you are going to be late please contact your Class Team directly or OTCN CDO (401)-841-4321.  

Room and Personnel Inspections 

Your room and personal appearance will be inspected to ensure they meet Navy standards.  To ensure cleanliness and maintain standards, room inspections occur at regular intervals.  Rooms are to be maintained in accordance with prescribed room standards which will be provided during training.

Personnel Inspection (PI): Each Officer will be inspected for proper uniform wear, grooming standards, knowledge (see Additional Documents and Maps Tab), hygiene, and general military appearance.

Navy Third Class Swimmer Qualification: Students will be required to pass the Navy Third Class Swimmer Qualification. This will test the student’s ability to jump off a 10ft platform, float for five (5) minutes, swim 50 yards, and inflate their uniform in a drown proofing exercise.

Shipboard Damage Control: The damage control curriculum is designed to familiarize you with the types of damage that can occur in the naval environment due to accidents, warfare, and nautical disasters. Damage control also includes instruction in firefighting theory and prevention of different kinds of fires common to sea, shore, and air commands. It also includes principles of chemical, biological, and radiological warfare defense. Practical demonstrations of flooding control are given in a mock-up of a shipboard space. Successful completion of both Damage Control ("wet trainer") and Basic Firefighting are required for graduation from ODS.

Selected Reserve (SELRES) Personnel

Course Number: P-9E-0003 (CIN)
Title: OFFICER DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL
Location: OFFICER TRAINING COMMAND NEWPORT, RI
CDP: 03WW
Length: 35 Days
Class of School/Course: PC
Skill Identifier for Which Trained: NONE
Student UIC: 66949
Security Clearance: Open Tier 3 or equivalent investigation or a Final Adjudicated Secret or above

CONFIRMING YOUR SEAT IN A CLASS

1. ENTRS: Please be assure to utilize eNTRS to book your request for ODS training via the “CORPORATE eNTERPRISE TRAINING ACTIVITY RESOURCE SYSTEM” website.  Welcome to CeTARS
2. New Requests: Upon making a new request, confirm that the student information is correct to include the DOD-ID, name, UIC, SCAT, gender, email, and designator is all up to date and listed properly.
3. Changes to Requests: If attempting to change an existing request that has been approved and needs to be amended so that it can be in another class, email ODS Quota Control Manager (QCM) and request a change. Approvals of request will depend upon quota for each class and availability of the ODS QCA.
4. Troubleshooting: If there is any issues for booking requests in eNTRS, please utilize the SOPs, which can be found in the CETARS website to begin basic troubleshooting. Notwithstanding, if there are questions regarding status of a request, please have your command QCA reach out to the ODS QCM for QCA-2-QCA link up. 

SPECIAL NOTES: All Selected Reserves (SELRES) personnel must be assigned as a commissioned officer and paid as an officer to enroll and attend Officer Development School.

Action Items Prior to Arrival to ODS

Call your financial institution or credit card company to let them know you will be making a series of large purchases at the uniform shop. This will help prevent the transaction from being stopped and flagged as fraudulent.