Officer Training Schools
- The Jeanne M. Holme Center hosts officer training for the United States Air Force. Trainees spend more than 12 hours a day exercising, doing drills, attending classes and honing their leadership skills in a Leadership Reaction Course. Stationed at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama's Air University, the officer training program takes trainees through 12 weeks of basic officer training and four-and-a-half weeks of commissioned officer training in order to create officers with character who embody the Air Force Core Values.
- The Officer Candidate School is located at the Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. Trainees go through intense physical training including running and calisthenics. They also participate in various academic courses: engineering classes focusing on hydraulics and Naval propulsion plants; military indoctrination, where trainees learn proper military customs; navigation; naval warfare; military law and Naval leadership. The program lasts for 12 weeks and graduates earn a commission as an ensign in the Navy.
- The United States Army offers a few paths to becoming an officer. Medical, law and religious professionals who want to train can enroll in the direct commission program which trains chaplains, JAG officers and Army medics. The Army ROTC offers students at colleges across the nation, in Guatemala and Puerto Rico the opportunity to obtain the rank of Army Second Lieutenant upon graduating with a college degree. The Army Officer Training School is located in Fort Benning, Georgia.
- The United States Military Academy in West Point, New York is one of the most prestigious schools in America. Cadets who graduate from West Point not only obtain an undergraduate degree, but also are commissioned and ranked as a second lieutenant. After graduation, they serve in the Active Army. Applicants must be older than 17 but not yet 23 by July 1st of the year they apply.
