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- Officer Candidate Schools Archived 2014-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
Officer candidate schools or Officer Cadet Schools (OCS) are military institutions which train civilians and enlisted personnel to be officers 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 academies which include academic instruction leading to a Bachelor's degree. Another difference is that an OCS is taught almost exclusively by the military.
