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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
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Training
U.S Army War College (USAWC)- Distance Education Program (DEP)
BACKGROUND
The DEP at the USAWC enables a Public Health Service officer to participate in an
academically accredited two-year, rigorous program of instruction. The DEP allows the officer to work a full-time job and still complete a USAWC education. The DEP is designed to be provocative, demanding, and innovative, transforming officers into strategic leaders. The DEP consists of a series of eight core courses, electives, and two resident courses, that are taken over a two-year period beginning with Orientation in April/May. Course performance is evaluated through writing, forum participation, and exercise requirements. Individual student requirements are based on required study and designed to ensure that course objectives are attained. Successful completion of the First Resident Course (FRC), which is held annually in June, is a prerequisite for entry into the Second Year Studies. Participants must fulfill the remaining DEP courses to attend the Second Resident Course (SRC) and graduation in July of the following year. Through the combination of core subjects, the DEP seeks to provide an atmosphere conducive to broad intellectual and personal growth for each officer; first, in professional knowledge and understanding; second, in creative, critical, analytical, and verbal capacities; and third, in personal development.
PURPOSE
USAWC graduates are effective senior leaders who:
- Think strategically and skillfully develop strategies to achieve national security objectives.
- Provide strategic context and perspective to inform and advise national level leaders; providing sound, nuanced and thoughtful military advice.
- Apply intellectual rigor and adaptive problem solving to multi-domain, joint warfighting, and enterprise level challenges.
- Lead teams with expert knowledge and collaborate with others to provide innovative solutions to complex, unstructured problems.
- Exercise moral judgment and promote the values and ethics of the profession of arms.
- Convey complex information and communicate effectively and persuasively to any audience.
OBJECTIVES
The US Army War College educates and develops leaders for service at the strategic level while advancing knowledge in the global application of Land power.
The purpose of US Army War College currently in our Nation's history is to produce graduates from all our courses who are skilled critical thinkers and complex problem solvers in the global application of Land power. Concurrently, it is our duty to the Army to also act as a "Think Factory" for Commanders and Civilian Leaders at the strategic level worldwide and routinely engage in discourse and debate on ground forces' role in achieving national security objectives.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Minimum Qualifications Needed to Apply:
- Officers must be at the rank of O-5 /O-6 with a minimum of fifteen years in the service with exceptional senior organizational experience in policy development, strategic planning, and program management (exceptions may be considered for those O-5/O-6 officers with less than 15 years of service).
- Officers must be serving in a position graded GS-14 (O-6 billet) and above.
- Officers must have an overall strong record of performance which confidently reflects the potential for effective service at more senior levels.
- Officers must communicate clearly, persuasively, and candidly, verbally and in writing
- Officers must be competitive for advancement in the Corps through all statutory promotion boards.
- Officers must be eligible for a Secret clearance.
- Basic Readiness status for previous 3 years.
- No active Adverse Actions.
Schedule: 2024
19-21 April 2024 - Attend optional 2-day Orientations at Carlisle Barracks, PA.
15 April 2024 – 15 May 2025 - Enrolled in on-line First Year Studies Course.
15 June – 27 June 2025 - Attend First Resident Course (FRC) (two-weeks) at Carlisle Barracks, PA.
15 July 2025 – 1 June 2026 - Enrolled in on-line Second Year Studies Course.
12 -24 July 2026 - Attend Second Resident Course (SRC) (two-weeks) at Carlisle Barracks, PA.
24 July 2026 - Graduation and Award of master’s degree at Carlisle Barracks, PA.
Application Opens:
January 5, 2024
Application Deadline:
February 25, 2024
Course Length:
2 years
Officers per Date:
1
Ranks Eligible:
O5/O6 with a minimum of fifteen years in the service
Selecting Official:
Deputy Surgeon General (DSG)
All applicants will need to be available/scheduled for an interview the week of 4-8 March, 2024 with final selections made by March 13, 2024.
All officers interested in participating in this training opportunity must complete a registration form using the link below and submit an application package to PHSCOTA@hhs.gov using the subject line: US Army College-Distance Education Program (DEP) Application submission.
US Army College-Distance Education Program (DEP) Application
Officers accepting an assignment to attend this training are expected to attend and complete the entire session.
Application package includes:
- Supervisory approval (e-mail or letter)
- A copy of your unofficial academic transcripts is required (minimum bachelor’s degree). After acceptance, the USAWC Registrar’s office can provide instructions to request official transcripts be sent from the officer’s undergraduate institution directly to the USAWC Registrar Office.
- Current standardized promotion curriculum vitae.
- A letter of Intent (maximum 1 page) explaining why you would be a good fit for the program or course of interest and how you plan to use the skills/knowledge gained to advance the mission of the USPHS Commissioned Corps, and attesting you meet all conditions of service.
- A full-length photo in uniform, standing at attention in the Operational Dress Uniform and Service Dress Blues (professional photos not required).
- Long Term Training packet. (Will be initiated once nominated for the training program.)
- Letter from the officer’s agency agreeing to fund the resident portions of the program, expenses for Distance Education Program, funding/TDY for the two mandatory two-week resident portions (one per year). Agreement from the agency on funding to attend the optional two–day orientation in April prior to course start is highly recommended, but not required.
***There is no tuition charge for this training; however, the selected officer’s agency must continue to pay the officer’s salary/benefits and all per diem or travel expenses.
Service Obligation:
Per Commission Corps Instruction (CCI) 325.01 “Extramural and Intramural Training and Obligation,” upon satisfactory completion of the course, the part-time DEP’s service obligation is based on the hours-in-attendance formula as per CCI 325.01, 6-6. (2). Prior to the start of the training, the Public Health Service officer, the USPHS Commissioned Corps, and the Agency/OPDIV/Program in which the Public Health Service officer serves, must agree to a Letter of Support (LOS) on the arrangements for the Public Health Service officer's assignment upon completion of the training.
Last Updated: 1/14/24
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