Quote Originally Posted by Schmedlap View Post
The point of these NCOES excursions is to provide a professional education. What the courses teach is far more important than where they fall on a Soldier's timeline as he moves up in rank.
I have a somewhat different view on the subject of NCOES. Having been to PLDC, BNCOC and ANCOC I can honestly say that all three amounted to little more than several weeks of my life that I will never have back. In eighteen years of active federal service I have never heard anyone talk about the great things that they learned in PLDC, BNCOC or ANCOC, nor I have I ever been able to tell who has not yet been to an NCOES schools because of some gaps in their knowledge. The NCOES has been little more than a check the block requirement at least since October of '94 when I went to PLDC. I can't imagine that it was radically better before that.

SFC W