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The Officer Training Corps (OTC) is a part of the British Army that provides military leadership training to students at UK universities. The name Officer Training Corps is misleading in that its mission is NOT the training of Officers, only a minority of OTC members go on to join the Regular or Territorial Army. However, in recent years this has changed with UOTCs being given targets to recruit members into the Regular or Territorial Army (although the mission statement (see below) has not changed). It is similar in some ways to US ROTC, however there is the fundamental difference that ROTCs are actually Officer Training Establishments and thus have a rather different ethos and work ethic. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
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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. ...
OTC members are classed as Officer Cadets and are members of "Group B" of the Territorial Army, paid when on duty. As part of Group B of the TA they are neither trained or liable for mobilised (active) service and do not receive the same annual bounty payment as members of the TA proper. They can gain appointments to Junior Under Officer and Senior Under Officer and can also gain commissions as Second Lieutenants. Cadets have no obligation to join the armed forces when they leave university and can resign from the OTC at any time. The officers and non-commissioned officers, who function as instructors and administrative and support staff, are a mixture of Regular Army, Territorial Army and Non Regular Permanent Staff. Officer Cadet is a rank held by military cadets during their training to become commissioned officers. ...
The Territorial Army (TA) is the principal reserve force of the British Army, the land armed forces of the United Kingdom, and composed mostly of part-time soldiers paid at the same rate, while engaged on military activities, as their Regular equivalents. ...
Under Officer is a rank held by Officer Cadets at the British military academies, in the Officers Training Corps and sometimes in the Combined Cadet Force. ...
Under Officer is a rank held by Officer Cadets at the British military academies, in the Officers Training Corps and sometimes in the Combined Cadet Force. ...
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In military organizations, a commissioned officer is a member of the service who derives authority directly from a sovereign power, and as such holds a commission from that power. ...
A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), also known as an NCO or Noncom, is an enlisted member of an armed force who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. ...
In the British Army, Non Regular Permanent Staff (NRPS - often pronounced as Nerps) are members of the Territorial Army who are employed on a full-time basis. ...
There are 19 University Officers Training Corps (UOTCs) throughout the UK, each of which serves the universities in a distinct geographic area. Those serving larger areas may have several detachments. Each UOTC is effectively an independent regiment, with its own cap badge and other insignia, its own stable belt and its own customs and traditions. British regiment A regiment is a military unit, consisting of a variable number of battalions - commanded by a colonel. ...
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Several OTC units specialise in infantry training. Others are split into a number of sub-units representing different arms and services, which cadets join when they have completed their initial training. On 1 April 2005 there were 4,257 personnel in the OTC. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Although some UOTC can trace their origins even earlier, the modern OTC was founded during the Haldane Reforms in 1908 to remedy a critical shortage of officers during the South African War (1899-1902). Initially it had a senior division, in eight universities, and a junior division, in public schools. During the First World War, the senior OTCs became officer producing units and some 30,000 officers passed through, but after the war reverted to their basic military training role. During the 1930s they began to increase in strength and peaked in 1938 during the Munich Crisis, and in the Second World War they again became officer producing units for the army. In 1948, the senior divisions became part of the Territorial Army and women were accepted for the first time with the formation of Women's Royal Army Corps sub units (women are now fully integrated into all sections). The junior divisions, by then renamed the Junior Training Corps, became the Army Sections of the Combined Cadet Force. For the next ten years, the corps aim was to prepare students for National Service. 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...
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The Womens Royal Army Corps (WRAC - sometimes pronounced phonetically as rack, a term unpopular with its members) was the corps to which all women in the British Army except medical, dental and veterinary officers and chaplains (who belonged to the same corps as the men) and nurses (who belonged...
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The mission statement of the Officers Training Corps is: To develop the leadership potential of selected university students through enjoyable training in order to communicate the values, ethos and career opportunities of the British Army.
Individual Units | Recruits From | External Website | | Aberdeen UOTC | Aberdeen University and Robert Gordon's University | [1] | | Birmingham UOTC | Universities of Birmingham, Warwick, Aston, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Keele and UCE | [2] | | Bristol UOTC | University of Bristol, University of Bath, University of the West of England and Bath Spa University | [3] | | Cambridge UOTC | Cambridge University, The University Of East Anglia and Anglia Ruskin University | [4] | | City Of Edinburgh UOTC | University of Edinburgh, Napier University, Heriot-Watt University and Queen Margaret's University | [5] | | East Midlands UOTC | Nottingham University, Loughborough University, Leicester University, Nottingham Trent University, De Montfort University Leicester, Derby University and Lincoln University | [6] | | Exeter UOTC | Exeter University, Plymouth University, Marjon | [7] | | Glasgow and Strathclyde UOTC | Glasgow University, Strathclyde University, Glasgow Caledonian University, Paisley University | [8] | | Leeds UOTC | Leeds Universities, Bradford University, Huddersfield University, York University and Hull University | [9] | | Liverpool UOTC | University of Liverpool, Lancaster University, Liverpool John Moores University, Hope College, University of Central Lancashire, Edge Hill University College, St. Martins College, Chester College | [10] | | Manchester and Salford UOTC | University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford | [11] | | Northumbrian UOTC | Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Durham, Teeside and Sunderland | [12] | | Oxford UOTC | Oxford University, Oxford Brookes University, Reading University, Royal Agricultural College Cirencester and Gloucester University, Royal Military College Shrivenham | [13] | | The Queen's UOTC | Queen's University, University of Ulster | [14] | | Sheffield UOTC | University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University | [15] | | Southampton UOTC | King Alfred's College, Southampton Institute, Bournemouth University, Southampton University, Portsmouth University | [16] | | Tayforth UOTC | St. Andrews University, Dundee University, Abertay University, Stirling University | [17] | | ULOTC University Of London Officers Training Corps | Anglia, Birkbeck, Brighton, Brunel, Bucks Chiltern, Camberwell College of Arts, (University of the Arts), Canterbury, Central School of Speech & Drama, Central St Martin's School of Art & Design (University of the Arts), Chelsea College of Art & Design (University of the Arts), City Courtauld Institute of Fine Art, East London, Essex, Goldsmith's, Greenwich, Hertfordshire, Heythrop, Imperial, Kent, King's College, Kingston, London Business School, London College of Communication (University of the Arts), London College of Fashion (University of the Arts), London Metropolitan, LSE, Luton, Middlesex, QMW, Roehampton, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music, Royal Holloway, Royal Veterinary College, SOAS, South Bank, St Barts, St Georges, St Mary's, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley, UCL - Gower Street and Royal Free, Westminster | [18] | | Wales UOTC | Cardiff University, UWIC, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Swansea, University of Glamorgan |
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