Officer Candidate School (United States Army)

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The United States Army's Officer Candidate School (OCS) is an officer training program that trains, assesses, and evaluates potential commissioned officers of the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard. Officer Candidates are former enlisted members (E-4 to E-8), Warrant Officers, inter-service transfers, or civilian college graduates who have enlisted as an "09S" to attend OCS after they have completed Basic Combat Training (BCT). Graduates have been historically called "90-day wonders". While the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School is located at Fort Benning, Georgia there are other OCS programs for members of the Army Reserve and National Guard. One of such is conducted at Fort McClellan Army National Guard Training Site in Anniston, AL by the Alabama Military Academy. OCS is generally a 12-week course designed to train, assess, evaluate, and develop Second Lieutenants for the U.S. Army. It is the only commissioning source that can be responsive to the U.S. Army's changing...

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