How HARD is Every U.S. Military Officer Candidate School?

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Do you know every U.S. Military Officer Candidate School (OCS)? The five Officer Candidate Schools are Army Officer Candidate School (Army OCS), Navy Officer Candidate School (Navy OCS), Marine Corps Officer Candidate School (Marine Corps OCS), Air Force Officer Training School (Air Force OTS), and Coast Guard Officer Candidate School (Coast Guard OCS).

Officer Candidate School (OCS) is one of the several ways that someone can commission as an Officer in the U.S. Military. You can think of Officer Candidate School as the boot camp or basic training for U.S. Military Officers. While all of the Officer Candidate Schools train service members to be future leaders in the U.S. Military, they each do it a bit differently.

With that said, what exactly goes on in each U.S. Military Branch’s Officer Candidate School? How hard is officer training in the U.S. Military? And what makes each of them unique from the rest? If you are interested in learning more about each U.S. Military Officer Candidate School, along with their similarities and differences, watch this video!

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0:00 Introduction
1:15 Overview
2:37 Army OCS
3:32 Ad
5:11 Army OCS
6:42 Navy OCS
9:12 Marine Corps OCS
12:02 Air Force OTS
15:11 Coast Guard OCS
17:56 Conclusion

[GeneralDischarge]

Which OCS would you want to go through? And if anyone here has a ship date to one of them, let us know!

[zanieyoung]

I agree with the way the Army does OCS. You have to become a soldier before you can lead soldiers. So sending potential officers through BCT first makes sense.

[Rabbid_Squirrel]

For Coast Guard OCS the reason why it was cut down was because they no longer make you go onto the Eagle.

[joshedwards]

I’m an army drill sergeant and I can tell you for a fact there is no sleep deprivation for anyone except the drill sergeants lol. Trainees have a minimum hours of sleep and it’s like 7 hours

[gavrilprncp]

I can’t thank you enough for this video. Just applied to Navy OCS and working on air force as well. Cant wait to see what they are like.

[bocian]

Of all the Navy OCS pictures to choose from, I can't believe my class picture is up there of us down at the "beach" haha

[MDMiller]

Glad to see the Corps is still the roughest.

[MoochStudiosOfficial]

Army OCS Grad here. It was actually very easy, and this is coming from a non-prior service guy. The army OCS subreddit has plenty of nitty-gritty details in terms of the history test and all that other shit for all those curious about it.

[JoeSmith-qend]

Yes I’m so excited I’ve been waiting for this video ever since the boot camp video! What a great day

[ImSomethingSpecial]

I love the Coast Guard! I joined the Coast Guard Auxiliary when I got out of the Navy and let me tell you, I did not know coasties were so cool. Even their civilian volunteer branch (the Auxilery) participates in SAR, vessel safety, can go on deployments with Active duty, stand watches for active duty, be pilots and so much more. I say this as a veteran but with as much hours as some of these civs put into the Auxilery and the fact they do near the same things as Active Duty Coasties I'd make the argument some of them deserve veteran status just like the rest of us.

That would also be a cool video idea: The civilian and youth volunteer programs of the U.S Military. Navy Cadets, Coast Guard Auxilery, Civil War Patrol, etc.

[jyy]

Highest standards and biggest challenge being a healthy civilian

[DavidSzelowski]

What is missing in the U.S. Marine Corps OCS take is that it is not a training but an officer screening course. Training is a secondary objective of OCS. Officer training occurs at TBS. My PLC class lost 75%, so depending on the year, the cut can be severe. I attended in 1976 and retired in 2002 so much probably has changed.

[jackturner]

I did not know that NOAA Officers went through USCG OCS; I knew NOAA had commissioned and uniformed personnel, but I was not aware that their training pipeline ran through the Coast Guard, given that their mission is scientific in nature. I have worked with some NOAA uniformed personnel, but not many, and never long enough to really get to ask them what it took to become a NOAA officer. Thanks for teaching me something new!

[BigTInTheMorning]

I’ve heard coast guard OCS is the hardest for civilians to get accepted into.

[bacormier]

"The Basic School"
"Semper Fi"

[OluwatobiAwoleye-pwhs]

Great video and content because it helped me understand OCS better than an other YouTube channels

[michaelwoods]

Coasties also go to Naval Flight School with sailors and Marines.

[alanstrong]

After finishing college, one has that option to put himself to good use. Takes roughly 18 months to finish OCS. After getting commissioned, you have a long march before retiring. Colonel over 20 carries great pay.

[kaitai]

It’s not even close, Marines by far the most difficult. USMC is looking to wash you out of OCS. Recruiting is specifically geared to grossly over-recruit. In my era (very late 80s, the proscribed wash out rate was a set 45%. Some OCS companies washed out more. By far the most likely reason was their body gave out on them.

Heat exhaustion, gone! Twist an ankle to the point it bruises, gone! Shin splints, gone! I recall several “flipping out” the first several days, disappearing escorted by corpsmen to the Naval Hospital psych ward. No mercy for any kind of weakness.

USMC OCS is NOT about training, it is about screening out the weak. We called them the “Unsat”.

[MiguelDLewis]

Right on time. Thanks, General Discharge. 👍🏾