Marine Corps Officer Training for Students and Graduates

The path to becoming a Marine Corps Officer starts with a basic screening process. If you have what it takes, you will complete a detailed application package reviewed by Marine Corps Officers with the goal of being selected to attend Officer Candidates School in Quantico, VA. Depending on your current status as a college student or graduate, you will have the option to attend two, six-week courses during the summer months, or one-ten week course. Officer Candidates School (OCS) is where mind, body and character are screened, evaluated and honed to a razor-sharp point. Leadership is measured not by how well you follow procedure, but how you lead in conditions of uncertainty. Decisiveness, judgment, initiative and moral courage are tested in the midst of chaos, exhaustion, indecision and scrutiny.