What is Officer candidate school?
'''Officer candidate schools''' or '''Officer Cadet Schools''' ('''OCS''') are [[military]] [[institution]]s which train [[civilian]]s and [[Enlisted rank|enlisted personnel]] to be [[Commissioned officer|officer]]s in the [[armed forces]] of a country. Different countries and services run their Officer Candidate schools differently. Most schools are for less than one year. An OCS is different from a [[Service academy|service academies]] which include [[academic]] [[:wikt:instruction|instruction]] leading to a [[Bachelor degree]]. Another difference is that an OCS is taught almost exclusively by the military.<ref>Ron Milam, ''Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War'' (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), p. 42</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.todaysmilitary.com/before-serving-in-the-military/officer-candidate-school Officer Candidate Schools] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312154906/http://www.todaysmilitary.com/before-serving-in-the-military/officer-candidate-school |date=2014-03-12 }} [[Category:Educational institutions]] {{military-stub}} [[Category:Military organizations]]