Schedule for Next OCS Orientation Set

The Winter Accelerated Officer Candidate School Orientation will be conducted on 10 September 2005 at Macon's Regional Training Institute 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Interested and qualified Soldiers are encouraged to attend. 

OCS packets can be obtained by visiting http://www.gastarc.com/rti/ Click on the Officer Candidate School link, and then click on the OCS packet A-Z link. If you do not have e-mail you can obtain the OCS packet from 1st Lt. Michelle Grant of the State Recruiting Office by calling 404-675-5266 or by e-mail michelle.grant@ga.ngb.army.mil

Questions concerning the Georgia OCS program can be addressed to Sgt. 1st Class Ronnie Garcia by calling 478-803-3229 or by e-mail at ronnie.garcia@ga.ngb.army.mil

Senator John F. Douglas, Chairman of the Senate Veteran and Military Affairs Committee and Representative John Yates, Chairman of the House Defense and Veterans Affairs committee toured YCA for the first time. Among other VIP guests to YCA was Georgia’s Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin, who spent time with the Academy’s only female Platoon.