What the difference between OC and CO?
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some 1 tell me whats the diff?
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CO is like the CEO or GM of a company whereas OC is lower rank, like a manager of a department.
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wasn't this answered before somewhere?
OC = Officer in Commanding, normally responsible for a Company.
CO = Commanding Officer, normally responsible for a Battalion/Regiment, Command School or Training School. May sometimes be known as a Comd instead of CO
Comd = Used for a training facility, Brigade or Division
Hope this answers your question, titles and names may differ for each service or country. -
OC usually holds the CPT rank on the combat side.
CO is his senior, normally wearing the MAJ rank. -
i'll assume u are reffering to BMT since u have not yet enlisted.Originally posted by SerialBox:some 1 tell me whats the diff?
in BMT, a OC will command a whole Company, let say 200 men.
while a CO will command a school in BMTC, either sch 1 or 2. sch 1 itself has 10 company. u do the maths. -
wah....
so many ppl ar... -
My OC is a Major
My CO is a BG -
Commandant leh?Originally posted by gonegoose:wasn't this answered before somewhere?
OC = Officer in Commanding, normally responsible for a Company.
CO = Commanding Officer, normally responsible for a Battalion/Regiment, Command School or Training School. May sometimes be known as a Comd instead of CO
Comd = Used for a training facility, Brigade or Division
Hope this answers your question, titles and names may differ for each service or country.
Commandant is for a staff college or high level units.
Commander is for Training Schools. (as above)
What about Camp Commandant? -
CO can be MAJ and above.
OC can be LTA to CPT or 1WO.
my CO is a MAJ(RET) -
Camp Commandant is usually a MAJ(RET) or LTC(RET).Originally posted by Master -_-:What about Camp Commandant? -
OC is JDO, Junior discipline officer, can charge u for minor stuff... usually SOL, defaulters...
If u henta kaki into CO office, den good luck to u! Enjoy life in DB
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Master, besides Commandant SCSC and CCOs, can't think of any other times this term is used. I asked this question before and you're right, the rationale of using the terms commander, commandant or CO is based on the unit's history, type of unit/school or simply the rank of that particular estb. After saying that, it does not mean that a person referred to as a "Commandant" is any more senior than a "Commander" or "CO". If you *really* need to know the seniority of a person, you would have to look up the table of precedence.
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OC is bar, CO is crab
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CO normally has about 4 OCs under him, as well as staff officers.
So OCs call COs sir.. -
OC starts with "O"
CO starts with "C"...
Since C comes before O, so C is bigger lah -
In a Formation, Section Heads are considered to be on par with OCs and Branch Heads are on par with COs.Thus, OCs can be CPTs or MAJs and COs can be any rank from MAJ and above.There are LTA(NS) who are OCs too and CPT(NS) who are COs.It's confusing but just remember that an OC traditionally is a Company Commander and a CO is a Battalion Commander in the most common intepretation.
Commander is usually reserved for Formation/Division Chiefs, e.g 3rd Div Commander , CGO(Chief Guards Officer), CMEO(Chief Maintenance and Engineering Officer).
Camp Commandant is usually used to describe the person in charge of camp logistics and maintanence.He can be of any rank, most common would be MAJ and above usually retired too.Some are DXOs.The only exception is Commandant SAFTI, where the officer is the Chief Of SAFTI MI, usually a BG.