Army Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can (US Army recruiting poster)
A mud-streaked infantry leader in helmet and fatigues kneels in a field, mouth open and one arm flung out, with a rifle and prone soldiers behind him, under the headline 'Army Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can.' The foot line reads 'Your future, your decision...choose ARMY OCS.' The claim is an unmeasured superlative, and the text names no duty, term of service or place.
- Date
- 1968
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- US Army (printed by the US Government Printing Office, September 1968)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalities
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History (via Wikimedia Commons), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- US federal work, public domain (Commons PD-USGov; GPO imprint)
US Army / US Government Printing Office, September 1968; Smithsonian National Museum of American History, object nmah_1160436. Commons file page: File:US_Army_Officer_Candidate_School_recruiting_poster,_1968.jpg (author unknown).
Text on the object
Army Officer Candidate School prepares you for leadership like no other school can. Your future, your decision...choose ARMY OCS RPI 125 SEPTEMBER 1968; U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1968 O—313-393
The foot imprint is small and low-resolution; the final number group (O—313-393) is the best reading.
