Welcome to the 63rd Officer Candidate Wing Association website.
This Association is formed by the last five classes of this officer commissioning program. In 1948 the United States Air Force graduated its first Officer Candidate School class. Since that time, until the last class graduated in June of 1963, over 12,000 enlisted men and women entered the program looking to exchange their enlisted stripes for officer bars. The Association objectives are as follows:
- To memorialize the United States Air Force Officer Candidate School (OCS)
- To record the history of the Officer Candidate School classes
- To record the experiences of those individuals who attended OCS
- To memorialize those who attended OCS and gave their lives in the defense of the United States
- To establish and maintain a means of communication between among individuals/classes that attended OCS
- To seek and engage opportunities that allow for improved careers of qualified USAF enlisted members through entrance into the AF Officer Corps.
Some of our initial efforts to support the above objectives are the establishment of a reunion cycle for the 63rd OC Wing of every three years, starting with Colorado Springs in 2005, continuing discussions with the Lackland Training Center on establishing an OCS display in the base historical museum and developing some type of OCS Memorial site on Lackland AFB, Texas. We would hope at some time in the future to encourage other AF OCS classes to join with us in the above goals, reunions and projects.