Differences in curricula pointed up distinctions between the two enrollments and highlighted the kind of officer corps intended. Because few officer candidates held university degrees, academic subjects occupied a larger percentage of the OCS than the OTS schedule. Officer candidates attended 250 class hours (30 percent) devoted to military science, general science, and geopolitics; officer trainees got 80 hours (20 percent). The OCS cadre structured and monitored a much larger percentage of their students' personal and study time than was the case for OTS.

The emphasis on military indoctrination in the two schools was reversed. Both devoted approximately the same amount of time (95 hours for OTS, 102 for OCS) to officership: ethics, responsibilities, legal status, and organizational effectiveness. The difference lay in the proportion of course time involved. For OTS, officership occupied almost one-quarter of the academic schedule, compared to twelve percent for OCS. Having served in the enlisted or warranted ranks, officer candidates were already familiar with how commissioned officers behaved and operated.

English Language Training. With the decision to transfer preflight training from Lackland, the Air Training Command discontinued the 3746th Pre-Flight Training Squadron (Language) and established, in its place, the Language School, United States Air Force on I January 1960, assigning it to Officer Military Schools. This new school at Lackland quickly acquired additional missions. It became responsible for all English language-training activities within the Air Force, and it soon taught foreign military personnel headed for all types of specialized and technical as well as flying training.

In 1966, the Department of Defense (DOD) assumed responsibility for the Air Force's English language training program, because the students almost invariably pursued training through United States military assistance programs, handled by DOD. On I July, the Air Training Command discontinued the USAF Language School, and all personnel and assets became the Defense Language Institute English Language School, created on I July 1966 by the Department of Defense and assigned to the United States Army as executive agent. Plans to relocate the Defense Language Institute English Language Branch (name change, c. 1 January 1970) in 1975 from Lackland to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, never materialized, and after redesignating it as the Defense Language Institute English Language Center, DOD directed in 1976 the Air Force to relieve the Army of the center's executive agency.

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