officer candidates school
 

Anyone know anything about this? It seems like a good idea, you do it for 6 or 10 weeks and after i graduate college i can join the marines (but i dont have to) and start out as a second leiutenant.

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i dont know how the marines work..but i'm pretty sure you need to do rotc to become an officer when you join ..and anyone who is enlisted has to go to OCS before they can become an officer

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this is different, its a summer program that you do while youre in college

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oh, so you can jump right in the marines as an officer? I think that would be gay going to basic and then tech school and pow..your an officer..but if it works. I'm just enlisting and doing my college on nights and weekends and what not in the Air Force.

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the army has a program thats called green to gold they pay for your schooling and while you go to shool you go to rotc then when you graduate and get your degree your then able to continue on to officer training. i would go talk to recruiters and ask lots of questions and talk to like 4 or 5 diffirent recruiters so you can get a straight answer. good luck

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Green to Gold is for prior service guys. (Army)

If you don't have prior service and you want to enter the Army as a 2LT then ROTC is the way to go. I dunno if this applies to the Marines/Navy/Air Force.

-Cadet Private First Class Frantilla
University of IL ROTC

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I don't know I definitely don't trust these programs now that they have for the army. I mean they had that "try one year" program where you could join the army for a year, well since troops are needed the contracts were illegally extended. There was a big lawsuit about it but whatever, you can't fight the government. Also with all the ---- going on the the world the last thing I would want is to join the army right now.

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If you go to officer candidates school you stil have to go to basic for 12 weeks, have fun!!!

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12 for the marines maybe 10for the army ow he was talking about the marines so ya 12

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I know a little about this ;):

1. you graduate school
2. you enlist into the Marine Corps
3. you go to OCS (officer candate school)
4. once you become a officer, which takes about 18 months if you are not prior enlisted you go to your MOS school. (total boot camp time, and ocs school time, and most school time, is about a year)
5. then you go you go to the fleet where you go through pure hell because you are a second Lt, know nothing, think you know it all, way over-paid, you are pretty much worthless.

thats a pretty much nut and shell of it all.

if you wanna know more...
http://www.ocs.usmc.mil/index.htm
www.usmc.mil
http://www.marines.com/officer_progr...atesschool.asp

pm me if you wanna know more...