events include topic specific lectures, exams, tactical decision games (TDGs), sand table exercises (STEXs), decision-forcing cases, and small group discussions. There are various field events, beginning with fireteam and squad level, and progressing to platoon-reinforced and company-sized events. The field events consist of realistic blank-fire training and live fire ranges. Phases of instruction Phase I (7 Weeks): Individual Skills Leadership Rifle and Pistol Qualification Land Navigation Communications Combat Lifesaving MCMAP Phase II (6 Weeks): Rifle Squad Leader Skills Decision-making Combined Arms Rifle Squad Tactics/Weapons Scouting and Patrolling Phase III (6 Weeks): Rifle Platoon Commander Skills Rifle Platoon Tactics Convoy Operations Engineering Crew-served weapons Phase IV (7 Weeks): Basic MAGTF Officer Skills Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain, or MOUT Rifle Platoon (REIN) Tactics Force Protection Expeditionary Operations (AMFEX/"War") Legal/Platoon Cmdr's Admin MOS selection and post BOC training and assignments Throughout the Program of Instruction (POI), Marines in each training company are split into thirds according to their combined scores of Leadership, Military Skills, and Academics. Each Marine ranks each specialization, or MOS, according to their preference, and each third is allocated an equal proportion of each specialization according to the Marine Corps' needs. Each third is independent of the others, so the top of the bottom third of placement is nearly as likely to get the specialization that they want as the top of the other two thirds. Throughout the POI, each Marine will have the opportunity to select which specialization they prefer in a mock-draft like setting, selecting what they prefer from what is leftover according to their grade placement in their third. Using these mock-drafts and listed preferences as reference, company staff then goes through each student and bestows upon them a specialization. This lottery system, however, does not apply to those Marines who signed air contracts to become pilots or law contracts to become legal officers. Following the Basic Officer Course, the officer will attend one or more additional schools to be trained in their specialty, and then assigned to a unit in the Fleet Marine Force or other operating forces of the Marine Corps (e.g., Marine Barracks, Washington, DC, Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, or the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group. Warrant Officer Basic Course (WOBC) Marine warrant officers attend a 16-week training regime similar in scope and instruction to the 28-week course required of second lieutenants, which is shortened