Talk:Officer candidate

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Just thought I'd make the comment that Marine Corps Officer Candidates ought be represented on here also.

Pay
The officer candidates are paid as an E-5, not an E-6. As a current officer candidate myself, I certainly wish that we were paid as E-6's, but alas, we're only sergeants. Erudy 15:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Actually, Army Officer Candidates are paid as E-6's. Army ROTC cadets are paid as E-5's.  I was a ROTC cadet for a little while before I switched to OCS (where I graduated and received my commission.) RLMorgan (talk) 23:49, 28 July 2008 (UTC)


 * When did you go through? I went through Army OCS and as of my graduation a year and a half ago, the pay was still E5Erudy (talk) 07:15, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I went through 3 years ago. Did you attend a State or Federal program?  That might be the difference, possibly. RLMorgan (talk) 19:34, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Commissioning Process
As far as the Army is concerned, when you graduate OCS and accept your commission as a 2LT, you are actually discharged from your enlisted contract and appointed as an officer. So, it's not simply a "promotion" from E-whatever to O-1. I corrected this for the U.S. Army section but I'm not sure about the other branches that still say "promoted". Maybe someone from these other branches could clarify and correct (if needed)? RLMorgan (talk) 01:25, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

India
In India they are Gentleman Cadets and the Academies include Indian Military Academy, Officers Training Academy etc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.162.16.1 (talk) 06:36, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Both articles talk about the same thing, which is describing would-be officers. As Officer Candidate is the more common name and the one used in the NATO STANAG 2116 document, Officer Designate should be merged with this page. Moreover, the term OF(D) used in the officer designate article is no longer used by NATO.--Officer781 (talk) 06:31, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved to Officer candidate. Uncontested for a week; no indication that title is a proper noun; consistent with solid majority of members in Category:Military ranks. Favonian (talk) 16:26, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Officer Candidate → Officer candidate – For consistency with Officer cadet, Second lieutenant, First lieutenant, etc. –PatPeter 00:34, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
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