It's face to face and you WILL take responsibility for all of your actions.  It was two high impact days of total leadership immersion.  Attendees where Cadet MSgt's or above who where motivated to improve their understanding and talents in leading others.

Officers where all over the attending cadets checking and re-checking their attention to detail, knowledge and uniforms. Each cadet had his or her own assigned training officer just to insure nothing was overlooked.

The uniform for the first day was BDU's, with a price to pay for every loose thread and incorrectly placed patch. New leaders where appointed from the candidate ranks every hour and put in charge of their classmates.  The candidates where marched to their breaks, taught how to take "seats," and "Sir" became a very repetitious part of their every sentence.

With every second supervised, the cadet candidates where put through classes on military leadership, drill, officer bearing, Air Force Core Values and Aerospace.  A one hour class even dealt only with developing a command voice.

All instructors had a minimum of 10 years military service and had held major leadership positions.  The Dallas Squadron's Cadet OCS is

modeled after the US Army's Infantry Officers Candidate School and re-teaching the CAP Leadership manuals first 7 chapters from the point of view of what is expected of an officer.  In addition the cadets where instructed on direct issues of command, tricks with sharpening their uniforms and leading in stressful environments.
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