The Basic School (TBS) is where all newly commissioned United States Marine Corps officers are sent to learn the art and science of being a Marine officer. Held in Quantico, Virginia and currently lasting six months, the new officers are given extensive classroom and field training on subjects ranging from weapons and tactics to leadership and protocol. Whether commissioned from the Naval Academy (a maximum of 16 and 2/3 percent of each Academy graduating class may opt to become Marines), ROTC or one of the other Officer Candidate School (OCS) routes, TBS is the first stop for new Marine officers. During TBS, the officers are selected for a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) ranging from Infantry to Military Police to Air Traffic Controller. Following TBS, the "Basic Officer" will attend one or more additional schools to be trained in that particular specialty prior to being assigned to a unit in the Fleet Marine Force (FMF). Nicknames for this school by the Marines that attend are "Thousands Being Saluted" and "The Big Suck." Jump to: navigation, search United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military. ... Quantico, Virginia is in Prince William County, 23 miles north-northeast of Fredericksburg, Virginia, near Dumfries and Stafford along Highway 619. ... Jump to: navigation, search The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ... Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Leadership can refer both to the process of leading, and to those entities that do the leading. ... Teamwork: Fourth Class Midshipmen lock arms and use ropes made from uniform items as they brace themselves climbing the Herndon Monument The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is located in Annapolis, Maryland. ... The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program of the United States armed forces present on college campuses to recruit and educate commissioned officers. ... In the United States armed forces, Officer Candidate School (OCS) or the equivalent is a training program for non-commissioned officers, soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and recent college graduates to earn commissions as officers. ... A Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a job classification in use in the U. S. Army and the U. S. Marine Corps. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search Military police (MPs) are the police of a military organization, generally concerning themselves with law enforcement and security. ... Jump to: navigation, search Controllers survey the field at Misawa Air Base, Japan. ... The Fleet Marine Force is a combined command of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps which comprises a combination of permanent afloat personnel, stationed on U.S. Navy ships, and ground units of the United States Marine Corps infantry branch. ...