UPT is 54 weeks. At drop night they may or may not tell you what operational base you are going to go to. Sometimes they will do that at the school house.
~IE, right now even though they have dropped 35s out of UPT. It is not a guarantee they will get a 35. They have to compete for it. I believe they dropped 4 now, but I believe they only have 2 or 3 slots, thus if they don't make the cut they are probably going to be sent to the 16s. Thus, no follow on op at drop night. The F15E also doesn't tell you either. You get an assignment to SJAFB which is the school house, and closer to graduation out of there they will give you an Op base. F15E school house is 9 months, thus they want to wait until you get closer to that time before they give the op base (see below why it is @ 1 yr more)
Fighter pilots go to IFF (it is a fighter school only where they prep them for the next leg ...schoolhouse)
Schoolhouses vary from 6-9 months depending on the air frame
Land and water sere training will be done somewhere in there.
So if all of your dates line up perfectly you are pretty much looking at showing up to your 1st op base @ 2+ years after starting UPT. Once at your 1st Op base it will depend on what they require for you to become MQ at that base. It can take a couple of weeks to get MQ status.
~ There will be still more academics, sims and check rides. Nothing big, just getting you to be qualified to fly in that area.
Now don't forget, it can take you 6 months from commissioning to get to UPT, and they could put you on casual status for 3+ more months before you start UPT. If you don't have your PPL, you will also go to IFT. So when you add in that time, you are looking at close to 3 years before you are operational.
My DS went heavy so he did not go to IFF, but here was his dates:
May 2012 - Commission
Sept 30, 2012 - Reported to Del Rio (casual status)
Feb 2013 - IFS aka now IFT
Apr 1, 2013 - UPT
April 24, 2014 - Winged
May 2014 - Water survival
June 2014 - Land
July 2014 - School house
Feb 2015 - Reported Operational base
Mar or Apr. - Operational
So as you can see for him it was almost 3 years from start to finish. Plus, not only did he not have IFF thrown in there, but he was also fortunate enough not to have long lag times between his training times. Bullet was a CSO (fighter so he had IFF), his schoolhouse was 6 months. He commissioned in May 1987, was considered MQ at his base in Nov. 1989.