Leadership course for new lieutenants nixed - Army News, news from Iraq, - Army Times: "A program designed to immerse new lieutenants in basic soldiering skills has come to an end less than four years after it began.
Basic Officer Leadership Course II, known as BOLC II, began in June 2006 as a sort of basic training for lieutenants before they were shipped to their officer basic courses.
The shortages of captains and majors that have kept units from manning their officer billets at 100 percent forced the Army to look at how it was moving lieutenants through the pipeline.
BOLC II kept as many as 8,000 second lieutenants in some sort of basic officer training at any given time. The six-week course was creating a bottleneck"
