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Regardless if you are a Marine Officer or an enlisted Marine, you'll have to earn your EGA by going through a brutal rite of passage, whether at USMC Officer Candidate School in Quantico, VA, or at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego/Parris Island. Listed here are a few of the parallels and variances between Officer Candidate School and boot camp.
Boot Camp is 13 weeks long. Enlisted Marines attend Recruit Training at either Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island or MCRD San Diego. Depending on which commissioning source you choose, you will attend Marine Corps OCS for either 6, 10, or 12 weeks. Unlike boot camp, OCS is only held at one location, Quantico, VA.
All enlisted Marines go to bootcamp. Some Marine Officers don't have to attend Officer Candidate School. Naval Academy Midshipmen are not required to endure OCS to get commissioned. Midshipmen are commissioned as 2ndLts in the Marine Corps upon graduation from the Naval Academy. All other officers must complete OCS.
Marines who were enlisted and who want to become a Marine Officer and apply for MECEP must attend 6 weeks of OCS during one of their summer breaks during college. This is known as OCS Bulldog. Platoon Leaders Class is one other alternative that Marine Officer Candidates have. That's where Marine Officer candidates sign up for one 6-week session of OCS immediately following their first or second year of college, and attend the second session of 6 weeks following their junior year of college. Following graduation from college, they will be commissioned as a 2ndLt in the Marine Corps. Another commissioning source is called Officer Commissioning Class (OCC). In OCC, Marine Officer Candidates undergo ten weeks straight of OCS after their final year of college and get commissioned as a 2ndLt upon completion of OCS.
Leadership billets differ in Recruit Training and OCS. During recruit training, you've got the opportunity to hold various leadership billets. The lowest leadership billet you can hold in recruit training is a fireteam leader, where you will be in charge of yourself and three other recruits. Squad Leaders are in charge of themself and three fireteams underneath him. The guide accounts for the entire platoon. The extent of their responsibilities are to be sure that the Marines in their charge are carrying out the orders of the Drill Instructors. They're usually the ones who are punished when someone in their fireteam/squad/platoon does something wrong. They're going to usually be getting IT'd more than the rest, alongside individuals who are not conducting themselves in an acceptable manner. Billets in boot camp could be held for minutes, hours, days, or weeks, depending the span of time before you mess something up.
In OCS, Marine Officer candidates have the opportunity to hold the same billets as recruits in boot camp as well as several additional billets including Platoon Commander, Platoon Sgt, Company GySgt, Company First Sergeant, Company Executive Officer, and Company Commander. Billets in OCS rotate every 3 days, and most Marine Officer candidates will get the opportunity to hold some form of platoon or company level leadership positions. Billets at OCS are like what they would be in the FMF for those leaders.
Boot Camp is 13 weeks long. Enlisted Marines attend Recruit Training at either Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island or MCRD San Diego. Depending on which commissioning source you choose, you will attend Marine Corps OCS for either 6, 10, or 12 weeks. Unlike boot camp, OCS is only held at one location, Quantico, VA.
All enlisted Marines go to bootcamp. Some Marine Officers don't have to attend Officer Candidate School. Naval Academy Midshipmen are not required to endure OCS to get commissioned. Midshipmen are commissioned as 2ndLts in the Marine Corps upon graduation from the Naval Academy. All other officers must complete OCS.
Marines who were enlisted and who want to become a Marine Officer and apply for MECEP must attend 6 weeks of OCS during one of their summer breaks during college. This is known as OCS Bulldog. Platoon Leaders Class is one other alternative that Marine Officer Candidates have. That's where Marine Officer candidates sign up for one 6-week session of OCS immediately following their first or second year of college, and attend the second session of 6 weeks following their junior year of college. Following graduation from college, they will be commissioned as a 2ndLt in the Marine Corps. Another commissioning source is called Officer Commissioning Class (OCC). In OCC, Marine Officer Candidates undergo ten weeks straight of OCS after their final year of college and get commissioned as a 2ndLt upon completion of OCS.
Leadership billets differ in Recruit Training and OCS. During recruit training, you've got the opportunity to hold various leadership billets. The lowest leadership billet you can hold in recruit training is a fireteam leader, where you will be in charge of yourself and three other recruits. Squad Leaders are in charge of themself and three fireteams underneath him. The guide accounts for the entire platoon. The extent of their responsibilities are to be sure that the Marines in their charge are carrying out the orders of the Drill Instructors. They're usually the ones who are punished when someone in their fireteam/squad/platoon does something wrong. They're going to usually be getting IT'd more than the rest, alongside individuals who are not conducting themselves in an acceptable manner. Billets in boot camp could be held for minutes, hours, days, or weeks, depending the span of time before you mess something up.
In OCS, Marine Officer candidates have the opportunity to hold the same billets as recruits in boot camp as well as several additional billets including Platoon Commander, Platoon Sgt, Company GySgt, Company First Sergeant, Company Executive Officer, and Company Commander. Billets in OCS rotate every 3 days, and most Marine Officer candidates will get the opportunity to hold some form of platoon or company level leadership positions. Billets at OCS are like what they would be in the FMF for those leaders.
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