Engineer Officer Basic Course

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The U.S. Army Engineer School, or Engineer Officer Basic Course (EOBC) is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and is eighteen weeks long. Once an Army Officer has been Commissioned and selected for the Engineer Branch, he or she is sent to Engineer School to learn military construction, combat engineering, and topography. The EOBC is comprised of almost all Second Lieutenants. Assignment to the school is somewhat competitive; there are generally more young officers seeking engineering assignments than there are openings.

The first four weeks consist of common military tasks and functions. Once completed, the students learn and are tested on military bridging, horizontal and vertical construction and military demolitions, including mine detection. EOBC concludes with a field training exercise where students learn combat engineering.

Once completed, most EOBC graduates are sent to units where they will be Platoon Leaders.

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