When does your Service Obligation "Start"?

[RingPlanet111]

I'm aware that no matter how you commission, you have to serve as an officer for X years. For Non-Aviation (specifically Army), when exactly does the Service obligation officially start? Is it right after you graduate from the Academy? Or when you start BOLC?
For instance, if a cadet graduates from West Point in June, but his BOLC (assuming non-aviation) is not scheduled to start until mid-august, does his obligation start in June or in August?

Thanks in advance.

 

[shiner]

The date of graduation from a SA is what appears on the DD214 for DATE ENTERED ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE and you also see a line item for DATE ENTERED INACTIVE DUTY SERVICE which captures your time at the SA.

 

[Tex232]

Depends on your commissioning source and/or career field. From what I understand (and at least this is how it works for USAFA grads) you enter active duty the day you commission/graduate from a service academy and your service commitment begins ticking on that day (unless you are slated for any type of flight training). Unlike ROTC, where often your graduation/commissioning/entry to active duty are three different dates.

 

[RingPlanet111]

Thank you very much. I'm intending to go Army (hopefully through West Point, but also ROTC as a backup).

 

[EDelahanty]

For AROTC, it's the day you show up to your BOLC station. This could be a week after commissioning or many months later.

 

[conrack]

last I understood for Air Force pilots the 10 year commitment starts after completing UPT