Thaicum completes officer candidate school
Rachani Thaicum graduated from the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Candidate School at Fort Rucker in Daleville and was appointed to the rank of warrant officer one.
The student completed an intense six-week course conducted in a very demanding, rigorous, high-stressed, and deadline-required environment. The candidate received training in leadership skills, Army customs, doctrine, tradition, and tactics, drill and ceremonies, professional ethics, physical fitness, time-stress-people management skills, decision-making, delegation and personnel skills, stress management techniques and numerous other military academic subjects. Students gain experience in leadership to attain higher responsibility while maintaining professionalism and quality work performance and standards required of career warrant officers. Additionally, candidates develop and hone skills relevant to an Army at war, skills required to effectively operate and survive on today’s ever-changing battlefield operations against global terrorism.
Warrant officers continue to further their training through technical and tactical certification. As the officers gain progressive levels of expertise and leadership, they operate, maintain, administer and manage equipment, support activities or technical systems throughout their Army career. They are highly specialized technical and training experts in their career specialties whom provide valuable skills, guidance and expertise to commanders and organizations. Warrant officers serve in the Regular Army, National Guard or Reserve to fulfill their military service obligation.
Thaicum is a human resource technician assigned to the 4th Regiment/108th Chemical Battalion in Huntsville. The warrant officer one has served in the military for 18 years.
She is the daughter of Joe H. and Ratana Oliver of Madison.
Thaicum graduated in 1989 from Bob Jones High School, Madison, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2002 from Upper Iowa University-Fort Leavenworth, Kan., distance-learning center. He earned a master’s degree in 2008 from Florida Technical Institute at Redstone Arsenal.
