Officer Candidate School

A school officer ( military jargon ), in High German but, as in the common authority file with joint -s Officer School, is a training facility for military officers.

• 2.1 officer schools in the strict sense
• 2.2 officer schools with academic training
• 2.3 Staff Academies

Types of officers' schools

The officer schools in different countries differ considerably in their approach to training part. They are geared mostly to a certain degree in the civil education system. One can differentiate between different types of officer schools:

• Officer schools in the strict sense
• Officer schools with academic training, including military academies
• Staff academies, including management academies, academies or General Staff General Staff Schools

It is not always possible, from the name of an institution to infer the type of training. The terms Military Academy and Military School can refer to different types of educational institutions. The frequent in the English language military academies can any of the above Correspond to types or even a military academy. The cadet schools are to be distinguished from the officers' schools. They are pre-military training of young people of school age and usually lead to a general education degree or for university entrance, whereas officers' schools are vocational training.

Officer schools in the strict sense

Officer schools in the strict sense are educational institutions that mediate the budding officers the military knowledge for their profession. These include, for example, the officer schools of the Armed Forces:

• Officers School of the Army
• Officers School of the Air Force
• Naval Academy Mürwik

These schools do not confer academic degree. German officers acquire their academic qualification at one of the universities of the Bundeswehr, in turn, teach no military content and therefore does not have the character of an officer schools. This form purely civilian universities in the possession of the armed forces found in other countries no direct equivalent.

Officer schools in the narrower sense are the various Officer Candidate Schools of the U.S. armed forces that are already academically qualified officer candidates receive their military training. The British armed forces regularly provide university graduates as a cadet, who are trained to the officer schools of the armed services.

Officer schools with academic training

The officer schools of many countries combine elements of academic and military officer training together and give training after passing both a military statements as an academic degree. This form correspond, for example, the great military academies of the U.S. armed forces. The French armed forces train their officers from using a system that leads alongside the military to a civil engineering degree.

Staff Academies

In contrast to the actual officer schools giving young officers a basic knowledge of the profession, serving staff academies to educate officers and prepare them for service in higher staffs. The most common form of this training is the general staff training, which takes place in Germany in addition to other elements of the staff officer training at the Staff College in Hamburg. In many countries, the staff training of the individual branches of the armed forces has been combined into a joint training armed forces in recent years. This will give the staff officers broader knowledge of the entire armed forces.

Above this level, there are training in some countries security policy academies, where in addition to officers and senior officials and other decision makers are trained in the field of foreign and security policy. Top of security training facility in Germany is the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin- Pankow.

Officer training in the United States

Officer schools in the strict sense

Candidates who have passed Bachelor's degree can be a so-called Officer Candidate School ( OCS ) Officer. For regular candidates, the training takes armed forces dependent between ten and 17 weeks. There are in all branches of the armed force an OCS:

• Officer Candidate School of the Army at Fort Benning, Georgia
• Officer Candidate School of the Navy on the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida
• Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia
• Officer Training School at Maxwell Air Force at the Air Force Base, Alabama.

Officer schools with academic training

The major military academies of the U.S. armed forces combine military training with an academic college education that leads to the degree Bachelor:

• Military Academy of the U.S. Army at West Point, New York
• Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland for the U.S. Marine Corps
• Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

The Coast Guard of the United States is by law a separate strike force, but is subordinate to the Department of Homeland Security in peacetime. The courses take place at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.

Staff Academies

The U.S. armed forces have more than one rod academies of the armed forces and as a joint U.S. Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Norfolk, VA. Highest academic training institution is the National Defense University in Washington, DC