Talk:Officers' Training Corps

message: Is the Officer Training Corps the British equivalent of U.S. ROTC? Rws1
:Sort of, although I believe the ROTC is more integrated into the university programme. The OTC is entirely unconnected with the university itself and is run by the Army. Also, OTC cadets do not get commissions in the British Army - the experience a cadet gains may help his application for a commission, but it doesn't give him preferential treatment and you certainly don't have to have been in the OTC (or even be a university graduate) to get a British Army commission. The OTC is, however, part of the Territorial Army and cadets can get commissions in that. -- Necrothesp 16:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, they do. The Royal Navy have several units spread around the country, with a small patrol boat assigned to each. I can't remember the name right now, however! Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 00:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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(note not Officers, Officer's or Officers')
Replaced by a more informative paragraph, which I will provide with citations in the next few minutes.
Still waiting on an official response. Andrewa (talk) 20:14, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Any response? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk |  Sign 19:49, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
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message: The article was moved to University Officer Training Corps without discussion. I served in it. It is officially called the Officers' Training Corps (OTC), whatever incorrect names may have spread around the internet. Despite the claims above, I have never heard it referred to as the Officer Training Corps by anyone who actually knew what they were talking about. I have therefore moved it back. -- Necrothesp (talk) 17:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In support of this, see the London Gazette, the official British government publication, here, here and here. -- Necrothesp (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As stated above, some MOD webpages do use "Officer Training Corps". Sadly, there are many such errors on MOD webpages. I suspect this is because the webmasters are generally not in the forces and know little about the forces. They therefore perpetuate the errors seen above and give them an unwarranted veneer of credibility. I have even seen an historical article which I wrote for Wikipedia lifted in toto and transplanted (uncredited) to an MOD webpage, presumably because the webmaster knew nothing about the subject and couldn't be bothered to do his own research (ironically, the original Wikipedia article was then tagged as a copyvio!). In these circumstances it's hardly surprising that errors creep in and the only really reliable online source is the London Gazette (although not even that is entirely error-free). -- Necrothesp (talk) 23:53, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
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message: To me this article reads more like a advertising leaflet that an informative article. Using phrases like "With access to the Territorial Army's resources for adventurous training,[10] students are enabled to pursue their other hobbies alongside their degrees" gives me the feeling that it lacks a neutral point of view.
I also feel that some of the sources are not reliable. For example the statement, which appears a number of times in the article with slightly different wording, "...90% of those serving with an OTC do not go on to either the Regular or Territorial Army" which is sourced as coming from this quotation "Members of CUOTC leave Cambridge to benefit strongly in civilian careers (90%) or as high-achieving officers mainly in the Regular Army (8%) but also the Territorial Army (2%)." is misleading, there are two main problems I see with this. One being the fact that the figures are not representative of the whole OTC, since it's only looking at one unit of 18 - or, depending how you read it, as only one university in one unit of 18, since it is not clear if it's just talking about Cambridge University or the whole of CUOTC. The other issue I see it it is that if you look at the statement in context of two of the three universities being in the top 20 universities of 2010. Admittedly I'm making an assumption here but I think that this may skew the figures of the amount of leavers going to the Army/TR compaired to another one which may have a higher proportion of less prestigious universities - again leading to the assumption made being unreliable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.219.171.183 (talk) 04:02, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
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message: I seem to remember this archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010073505/http://www.soton.ac.uk/~suotc/history.html from my OTC days, but lack the skill required to add it to the main article or even create a separate SUOTC page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.120.74 (talk) 20:25, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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message: I seem to remember India once having having UOTC's which have now been replaced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cadet_Corps_%28India%29
Should this be added to the see also links?
How many other Commonwealth nations had a OTC or UOTC?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.21.120.74 (talk) 20:33, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
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