MILITARY POLICE PB 19-06-1
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In May 2004, the commanding general (CG) of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
directed the creation of a new Reserve Component (RC) Captains Career Course (CCC) to replace
the Officer Advanced Course (OAC). Schools and centers Armywide are developing and starting
new Reserve Component CCCs.
The main difference between the two courses is that the CCC incorporates the five learning
objectives and the combined arms exercise (CAX) from the Combined Services Staff School (CAS3)
into its curriculum. While OAC prepared an officer to be a commander and CAS3 prepared an
officer to serve on a staff, the CCC equips officers for both. The active Army made the change
several years ago, thus eliminating its CAS3 requirement. The RC, which includes the US Army
Reserve and the Army National Guard, is just now converting.
Currently, RC military police officers take several Army correspondence courses through
<www.atsc.army.mil>; attend a two-week resident phase at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; and
then attend a two-week CAX at any of several installations. The Military Police Captains Career
Course-Reserve Component (MPCCC-RC) will consist of three distance learning phases and two
resident phases. One of the directives from the CG, TRADOC to the commandant of the US Army
Military Police School (USAMPS) was to make the MPCCC-RC experience mirror that of the
active Army as much as possible. While time constraints required that some lessons be dropped,
the course material, practical exercises, and quality of the two courses are now very similar. The
five phases of the MPCCC-RC are as follows:
• Phase 1 consists of TRADOC-mandated common core tasks. Twenty-one tasks ranging
from ethical decision making to mortuary affairs support will be delivered via TRADOC-
developed distance learning. Students will have until the end of Phase 5 to complete this
phase.
• Phase 2 consists of military police-specific training and combined arms lessons. Students
must complete Phase 2 before attending Phase 3.
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