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Officer Candidate School


Consider the following:

ADVANCE AND BE RECOGNIZED.
Through Officer Candidate School you will gain valuable career training, get money for college, and be able to give back to your community and country.

Current Guard members, Prior service, and even individuals with no prior military service can take advantage of the Officer Candidate School.
In order to attend Officer Candidate School you must be qualified in the following areas:

Future Traditional OCS and Accelerated OCS Dates - Click here


OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL ENLISTMENT
GREATER RESPONSIBILITES
GREATER REWARDS

Become a leader within an elite team. If you have 90 college credits and meet all other requirements. Now is the time for you to enlist and purse OCS. The New York Army National Guard offers you the flexibility of three ways to attend OCS. The three programs listed will change you physically, mentally and emotionally that will give you a jump start ahead of your civilian peers to a better future.


TRADITIONAL OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL Traditional OCS (T-OCS) Course also call State OCS is an 16 month part-time course of instruction taught in lieu-of drill weekends and your two annual training from April to August the following year.

NGB ACCELERATED OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL NGB Accelerated OCS (A-OCS) Course is an eight-week accelerated OCS program for qualified personnel, in both the winter and summer months. Winter January-March and Summer June-August each year with two in processing weekends performed in lieu-of drill weekend before starting A-OCS.

FEDERAL OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL Federal Officer Candidate School (F-OCS) is a 12 week school conducted throughout the year at Fort Benning, Georgia.

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY West Point, NY


Benefits:

  1. NY Army National Guard Officer Candidate School (OC). The best leadership training program going! All soldier once accepted into Phase 1 OCS are paid no lower than E5/SGT typically $290.80 for one weekend plus Annual Training ($5,089.00/year) and are non-deployable until completion of their follow on Officer Basic Course (BOLC II & III).
  2. Enlisted soldiers receiving Student Loan Repayment Program (SLRP) will remain eligible while attending OCS and will remain eligible upon commissioning or appointment, subject to the original restriction that their SLRP will be paid within the same time period established in their original enlistment documents. Effective 01 Mar 09, newly commission officers that have SLRP in order to qualify for the Officer Accession Bonus upon commissioning, their SLRP must be completed prior to their commissioning date by either having the final payment processed in normal fashion under the contract, or by paying off their loans where no further payments are possible under the SLRP contract.
  3. Soldiers who contracted under Selective Reserve Incentive Program (SRIP) bonus who served more than one year of their enlistment incentive contract, to include OCS time, do NOT have to pay back SRIP bonus and. will be terminated from SRIP without recoupment.
  4. 100% Tuition Assistance to cover tuition cost and fees, not to exceed $4,500 per fiscal year (1 October - 30 September) up to their 1st professional degree.
  5. The Montgomery G.I. Bill, which pays up to $11,124 for college (or other approved technical training).
  6. The Army National Guard G.I. Bill Kicker, which pays officers up to $12,600 for College (or other approved technical training).

Enrollment Instructions:

  1. Contact the OSM for your region here.
  2. Download the packing list.
  3. Download directions to Camp Smith.
  4. Download Officer Candidate Guide

OCS: PATHS TO LEADERSHIP

NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP

YOUR EFFORTS ARE REWARDED


RESOURCES:

© NYS DMNA: NY National Guard Officer Accessions - Officer Candidate School
URL: https://dmna.ny.gov/arng/ocs/?id=ocs
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