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The United States Army's Officer Candidate School (OCS), located at Fort Benning, Georgia, trains, assesses, and evaluates potential commissioned officers in the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and some Army National Guard. Officer candidates are former enlisted members (E-4 to E9), Warrant Officers, inter-service transfers,〔In this case, Inter-Service Transfer refers to enlisted members of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps transferring to the U.S. Army to attend OCS.〕 or civilian college graduates who enlist for the "OCS Option" after they complete Basic Combat Training (BCT). The latter are often referred to as "college ops". ==Overview== OCS is a rigorous 12-week course designed to train, assess, evaluate, and develop second lieutenants for the U.S. Army's sixteen basic branches. It is the only commissioning source that can be responsive to the U.S. Army's changing personnel requirements due to its short length, compared to other commissioning programs and their requirements. Completing OCS is one of several ways of becoming a U.S. Army commissioned officer. The other methods are: *Graduation from United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, NY *Graduation from United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) at Kings Pont, NY 〔http://www.usmma.edu/admissions/application/service-obligation〕 *Completing Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) offered at most civilian universities throughout the U.S. *State-level Officer Candidate Schools programmed by the Army National Guard at Regional Training Institutes (RTI), with curriculum identical to the federal OCS program. *Direct Commissioning normally is used for accessions of chaplains, medical professionals, and Judge Advocate General (JAG) lawyers. Currently, the U.S. Army Reserve is using this method in limited numbers for the basic branches as well. *Interservice transfer as a commissioned officer of another United States military branch.〔Army Regulation 614–120 Interservice Transfer of Army Commissioned Officers on the Active Duty List para 2–5 Application of officers of other uniformed services〕 *Battlefield commissions, or meritorious commissions, though technically still provided for, have not been used by the US Army since the Vietnam War. The U.S. Army Officer Candidate School is organizationally designated as ''3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, 199th Infantry Brigade''.〔(199th Infantry Brigade )〕 It was redesignated from the 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment in June 2007. It is a subordinate unit of the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) also headquartered at Ft. Benning. As of July 2014 the battalion has five training companies and a Headquarters Company in operation, designated HHC, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo—each of which can conduct one class at a time, with a maximum of 160 candidates being trained in each class.〔(ATRRS Course Catalog )〕 Generally, only Alpha thru Delta are used, but if there are sufficient numbers of students, Echo company will be opened-up as well. HHC serves as the "holding" company for brand new candidates going thru their in-processing or for injured candidates who are recuperating from their injuries. Those who recuperate from injury are often "recycled" into the next class (like the Army's Ranger School). Every three weeks a class graduates and another one is started. The commander of the 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment (OCS), 199th Infantry Brigade is Lieutenant Colonel Matthew P. Neumeyer and the Command Sergeant Major is Calvin Witherspoon. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Officer Candidate School (United States Army)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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