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  • Warrant Officer Candidate School (United States Army)
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  • The United States Army's Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS), located at Fort Rucker, Alabama, provides training to become a warrant officer in the U.S. Army with the exception of U.S. Army Special Forces Warrant Officers who attend the Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification Course (SF WOTTC) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Warrant officer candidates are typically drawn from enlisted members (up to Command Sergeant Major) and inter-service transfers. In this case, Inter-Service Transfer refers to enlisted members of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps transferring to the U.S. Army to attend WOCS, or civilian high school graduates who enlist for guaranteed attendance as aviation (flight) candidates at WOCS after they complete Basic Combat Trai
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Garrison
  • Fort Rucker, Alabama
Branch
command structure
  • Training and Doctrine Command and the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College
Role
  • Train and commission U.S. Army Warrant Officers
Country
  • United States
Type
  • Training
Caption
  • The USAWOCC patch was created in 2008.
Dates
  • 1918
Unit Name
  • Warrant Officer Candidate School
Motto
  • "Strength in Knowledge"
abstract
  • The United States Army's Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS), located at Fort Rucker, Alabama, provides training to become a warrant officer in the U.S. Army with the exception of U.S. Army Special Forces Warrant Officers who attend the Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification Course (SF WOTTC) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Warrant officer candidates are typically drawn from enlisted members (up to Command Sergeant Major) and inter-service transfers. In this case, Inter-Service Transfer refers to enlisted members of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps transferring to the U.S. Army to attend WOCS, or civilian high school graduates who enlist for guaranteed attendance as aviation (flight) candidates at WOCS after they complete Basic Combat Training (BCT). WOC candidates without prior enlisted service are informally referred to as high school to flight school or street to seat recruits by WOC candidates with prior enlisted service.