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The Basic School (TBS) is where all newly commissioned and appointed (for warrant officers) United States Marine Corps officers are taught the basics of being an "Officer of Marines." The Basic School is located in Stafford County, Virginia to the south-west of the Marine Corps Base Quantico complex.
Used primarily for training purposes, MCB Quantico is known as the "Crossroads of the Marine Corps". [1] [3] Quantico Station is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William and Stafford counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, used by the Census Bureau to describe base housing. The population was 4,452 at the 2010 census.
It is located at Marine Corps Base Quantico. Depending on the course, Officer Candidates go through either a 10-week (PLC Combined/OCC), or two 6-week courses (PLC) over separate summers, designed primarily to screen and evaluate candidates' fitness to lead Marines by placing them in leadership positions in a stressful environment.
The Training Command is responsible for the production of officer and enlisted entry-level Military Occupational Specialty, career progression, and career enhancement skills, with control over all formal training schools throughout the Marine Corps, including Officer Candidate School, The Basic School, Schools of Infantry and various other formal schools.
After completion of The Basic School at MCB Quantico in Virginia, he was assigned as a platoon leader in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He later served as the battalion personnel officer for 3rd Battalion. While at Camp Lejeune, he was promoted to first lieutenant in December 1963.
In 1928 they returned to MCB Quantico where they took up the role of doing flight demonstrations for new officers at The Basic School. Curtiss O2C-1s flown by VO-6M in the early 1930s. During the 1930s VO-6M flew the Vought Vought 02U-1 and the Curtiss F8C-5 Helldiver.
Shortly after this the last CO of the squadron flew the last remaining plane belonging to the squadron to Quantico MCB where he crashed the plane on its final landing. The aircraft, which was the first Marine Corps aircraft to respond after the 9/11 attacks was repaired and sat on display at TBS (The Basic School) until it went under restoration.
Currently, BCOC is a 20-week Program of Instruction (POI), conducted twice per year aboard Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. The majority of the students begin BCOC following their graduation from The Basic School, and are awarded with the 0602 MOS upon successful completion of the course. Class sizes ...