The Secapaad course is a rigorous 20-week, 5-6 month course designed to train, assess, evaluate, and develop officers with the rank of Second lieutenant within the Army.

Historically, Secapaad course is designed to provide numbers of officer especially during the war of independence.

The Secapaad was established as a secondary center for the training of Army Officers besides the Magelang-based Military Academy.

On the initiative of the then Chief of Staff of the Army General Umar Wirahadikusumah, on Saturday 8 January 1972 the Army OCS was officially opened to the public with Colonel S. Banoearli as the first commandant, thus officially January 8, 1972 is designated as birthday of the Secapaad.

[1] Its Bandung campus also honors the former Military Technical Academy, which was fused into the military academy in 1962, a marker with the names of its top graduates, including that of 30 September Movement martyr Pierre Tendean, is located in the campus grounds.