Leadership comprises 36%, with military skills and academics comprising 32% each (Finley, 2002; Wiler & Hurndon, 2008): It is here that lieutenants take the GCT [General Classification Test] (Cancian & Klein, 2015, p.7). Officers selected to serve in a Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) battalion complete an additional six-week LAR leaders course conducted at the USMC School of Infantry. If you have an eLearning Ecosystem account, you can activate your Moodle account by logging into the ecosystem and navigating to the Instructor-led Courses (Moodle) link. In 2003, officer students were living in accommodation that was described as close to Spartan, with three or four sharing two cinder-block room plus a bathroom. (Agostino, 2003), although in 2012 a significant sum was spent upgrading and modernising the facilities at TBS. (2003) A Day at The Basic School. The TBS command launched an investigation and the students, interviewed one by one, began to rat each other out. Delta Company (officer candidates via NROTC). The then commanding officer TBS formulated room assignments which meant that, for example aviators, were not in the same room as each other with the result of producing a more homogenous class/group. organise a squad to conduct reconnaissance of the area or make contact with the enemy. This is an official U.S. Marine Corps website|Library of the Marine Corps | 2040 Broadway Street |Quantico, Virginia 22134 | 703.784.4409, Marine Corps Social Media/Accessibility/FOIA/No Fear Act/Marines.mil/MCBQuantico/USA.gov. margin: 10px; Train and educate newly commissioned or appointed officers in the high standards of professional knowledge, esprit-de-corps, and leadership to prepare them for duty as company grade officers in the operating forces, with particular emphasis on the duties, responsibilities, and warfighting skills required of a rifle platoon commander. Available from World Wide Web: http://www.randalllamb.com/2013/02/12/insight-randall-lamb-to-reinvent-living-at-marine-corps-base-mcb-quantico-va/. Leaders must be trained for certainty and educated for uncertainty. (Anderson, 1999). <> DI5101E000 Driving for Life (Required before you can get your vehicle registered) (2008) An Analysis of Performance at the Basic School as a Predictor of Officer Performance in the Operating Forces. More detailed information on gradings, which impact MOS allocation, can be found under research in the Useful Publications section at the end. The Basic School (TBS) In very rare cases, an officer who receives an initial commission in another branch of the US armed forces, and who has already been promoted to First Lieutenant, may receive an inter-Service transfer to the USMC and attend TBS as a First Lieutenant. } Available from World Wide Web: https://www.mca-marines.org/gallery/c-co-tbs-graduation. font-weight: 500; <> The test begins in a classroom after midnight, with students being given a mock rifle and a backpack loaded with food and equipment. Of the 96 officers who had started CET in July 2012, 7 quit, 7 were injured, and 6 failed leaving 76 to continue on the IOC (Chivers, 2012). This IS includes security measures (e.g., authorization and access controls) to protect USG interests--not for your personal benefit or privacy. This includes naval aviators (aircraft pilots and naval flight officers), aircraft weapons, navigation, sensor systems officers, air defence positions, and aviation command and control. Stark, K.V. TBS is led by the Commanding Officer (CO), a Colonel (OF-5), who is personally selected by the Commandant USMC (Speigle, 2008). [Accessed: 12 April, 2018]. 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