 Officers of the military are the leaders of our nation's service members. Officer Canada School is a primary commissioning source for the Ohio Army National Guard. OCS builds and molds soldiers to prepare them for the task of leading. The Ohio Army National Guard OCS program allows soldiers to test and strengthen their capabilities as they train to become leaders. OCS is a primary commissioning source for soldiers in the Ohio Army National Guard who are interested in becoming officers. It's a rigorous course designed to develop leadership skills and to identify those soldiers who are fit to be leaders in the U.S. Army. It's a demanding course, it's not easy, but I think it's absolutely very rewarding and I would highly encourage all leaders to take a take a deep look and think about pursuing a career like that. It was the option to be challenged and to do something different. Leading people was not easy and when you have a group of people that come into a program and they do different things and they have different backgrounds and trying to make that into a team, it's very big and very huge challenge. The importance of OCS is to show the potential officer candidates what it means to be a leader and what it takes.