Officer Basic Course (OBC)

The Officer Basic Course is 2-week mandatory training for all USPHS Commissioned Corps officers called to extended active duty after 30 September 2008. The OBC is an official Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY) that provides a comprehensive orientation to Commissioned Corps officers. At least one member of the SciPAC Career Development Subcommittee’s OBC Training Workgroup attends the OBC open house and graduation ceremony each month (when an OBC training is being held and when a Scientist Officer is attending the course) to welcome new active duty Scientist Officers to the USPHS Commissioned Corps and to answer any category-specific questions. At each graduation ceremony, the OBC Training Workgroup presents a personalized letter from the Chief Professional Officer, CAPT Sukhminder K. Sandhu, and a Scientist Category coin to each new Scientist Officer.

Recent Graduates

Congratulations to the most recent Scientist Officer OBC graduates

OBC Class 106 Graduates, November 2018

Above Photo: Pictured from left to right:

RADM Palmer Orlandi, CDR Eric Zhou, LCDR Shiny Matthew, LT Dianca Finch, and LT Brett Forshey

OBC Class 103 Graduates,  May 2018

Above Photo: Pictured from left to right:

LT Robert Gahl, VAD Jerome Adams (SG), LT Adelaida Rosario, CAPT John Eckert (CPO)

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LCDR Xinzhi Zhang, CDR Arlin Hatch, LT Robert Gahl, VAD Jerome Adams (SG), LT Adelaida Rosario, CAPT John Eckert (CPO), CAPT DeLoris Hunter, CDR Eric Zhou

OBC Class 102 Graduates, March 2018

Above Photo: Pictured from left to right:

LT Prince Awuah, LT Lauren Woodard, CDR Qiao Bobo, CAPT John Eckert, LT Nana Wilson, LT Sean Marcsisin,
and LCDR Lacreisha Ejike-King

Above Photo: Pictured from left to right:

CDR Arlin Hatch, LT Prince Awuah, LT Lacreisha Ejike-King, LT Nana Wilson, LT Sean Marcsisin, LT Lauren Woodard, and LCDR Shondelle Wilson-Frederick

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LT Sean Marcsisin, LT lacreisha Ejike-King, LT Prince Awuah, CAPT Dean Coppola, LT Shaun Stracener, LT Alesya Oleynik, LT Lauren Woodard

OBC 101 Class Graduates, February 2018

Above photo: Pictured from left to right:

CAPT John Eckert (CPO), LT Charles Helm, LT Pushpa Jayasekera, LCDR Rudolph Francin, CDR Alvin Hatch 

Scientist OBC Class Photos Archive  

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