Warrant Officer Candidate School

Warrant Officer Candidate School
The USAWOCC patch was created in 2008.
Active	1918–present
Country	United States
Branch	U.S. Army
Type	Training
Role	Train and appoint U.S. Army Warrant Officers
Part of	Training and Doctrine Command and the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Career College
Garrison/HQ	Fort Novosel, Alabama
Motto(s)	"Strength in Knowledge"

The United States Army's Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS), located at Fort Novosel, Alabama, provides training for Soldiers to become a warrant officer in the U.S. Army or U.S. Army National Guard (also conducted via state Regional Training Institutes—RTI programs), with the recent exception of U.S. Army Special Forces Warrant Officers. Since 2007, Special Forces Warrant Officers attend the Special Forces Warrant Officer Technical and Tactical Certification Course (SF-WOTTC) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. As of January 2018^[update], WOCS and SF-WOTTC are the only two training institutions which are authorized to appoint warrant officers in the U.S. Army.^{[citation needed]} Warrant officer candidates are typically drawn from enlisted members (up to Command Sergeant Major) and inter-service transfers.^[1] In this case, Inter-Service Transfer refers to enlisted members of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, or U.S. Marine Corps transferring to the U.S. Army to attend WOCS,^[1] or civilian high school graduates who enlist for guaranteed attendance as aviation (flight) candidates at WOCS after they complete Basic Combat Training (BCT). Warrant officer candidates without prior enlisted service are informally referred to as high school to flight school or street to seat recruits by warrant officer candidates with prior enlisted service.^[2][3]