Officer Candidate School (OCS) or Officer Training School (OTS) is the commissioning route generally geared toward college graduates who are entering the U.S. military outside of service academies or ...

Every summer, nearly 8,000 college students from across the country head to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for Cadet Summer Training — ...

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 ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — Today, Cadet Summer Training is renowned as the Army’s largest annual training event, bringing over 10,000 ROTC cadets to Fort Knox each summer as part of their commissioning journey.

The U.S. Army’s training sites, such as the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, shown here, don’t replicate the terrain that the Army is most likely to fight on, warns a U.S. Army ...

(This article by Hope Hodge Seck originally appeared in the October 2025 issue of Military Officer, a magazine available to ...

Cheyanne and Donald Reichard, who graduated a week apart from Officer Candidate School, drew strength from knowing the other ...

The sixth and newest military service branch, the United States Space Force (USSF) was created in 2019 under the Department of the Air Force. It consists of about 4,200 enlisted service members and ...

The US president warned military leaders of a "war from within", and signals they will be tasked with intervening.

HILL. NEW THIS MORNING, AN UNVEILING CEREMONY HAPPENED THIS WEEKEND OF A NEW HISTORICAL MARKER ON THE GROUNDS OF FORT DES MOINES. THE MARKER HONORS 1250 BLACK COLLEGE GRADUATES WHO WENT THROUGH U.S.