For schools, there are a few, but most likely they will be either posted to "OCS" or "SISPEC". OCS stands for Officer Cadet School and SISPEC, School of Infantry Specialist. I'm not going to tell you the entire story cuz you're supposed to find them out yourself, thats PROVIDED you're posted to OCS =)
For Officer Cadets, which is the main topic of this page has one of the longest training time span in the SAF. 10 months of training, divided up into 3 terms. They are:
1. Tri-service term
2. Service 1 & 2
3. Professional Term
Tri-service Term is a mixture of all Navy,Airforce and Army cadets and it is just one month, when a Cadet wheres a rank of 1 white bar. Activities occuring will be:
1. Interviews
2. Sports
3. Lessons
4. 5 KM F.March
For Service Term 1, the Army cadets are on their own. It consist of all army vocations, i.e Infantry, signals, Artillery, Engineers and Armour. It is also 1 month of training similar to the Tri-service Term, just that at the cadets will be give 2 white bar and at the end of the month, there will be a :
"Selection Field camp" consisting of a 5-days topo and some section missions.
Then comes the Service Term 2. Its a 2� month training. Lesser thoery lessons this time but have some drills and weapons lesson and some other extra training like IPPT and SOC. Finally before end of the month, there will be 3 finale:
1. Petrol field camp, 5 days
2. Ex. Spade, digging exercise
3. Platoon field camp, 3 days
Altogether 3 weeks almost outta OCS.
Finally comes the Professional Term. =) The infantry cadets will remain in OCS while the rest post out to their own schools, i.e school of Armour, school of Signals .. etc etc.. The pro Term is a 5� months gruelling course, consisting of:
1. Ex. dump-in, 5 days
2. 3 Platoon mission exercises
3. Some lessons and weapons drill
4. 2 overseas trip, Brunei and Taiwan.
5. Platoon Assault Course
6. Ex. Panther <-- determines the sword of Honour
then finally you're commissioned as an Officer.
