Modern OCS
Today, Officer Candidate school is offered in two ways. Active duty OCS is a 12-week long school, taught "in residence" at Ft. Benning, Georgia. Its primary purpose is to commission Second Lieutenants into the Active Army, with a secondary purpose of training selected individuals for Reserve duty as commissioned officers.
The Army National Guard also runs OCS at Regional Training Institutes (RTI) in many states. This is the same program of instruction as the OCS program conducted at Fort Benning and are accredited every three years through Fort Benning.
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