---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2106"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2106"
heading: "Advanced training; commission on completion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2106"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 103 — Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps"
---

# §2106. Advanced training; commission on completion

- (a) Upon satisfactorily completing the academic and [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) requirements of the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) of [advanced training](/usc/10/2101.md?p=3), a [member of the program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=2) who was selected for [advanced training](/usc/10/2101.md?p=3) under [section 2104 of this title](/usc/10/2104.md) may be appointed as a [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) or [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) in the appropriate armed force in the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of second lieutenant or ensign, even though he is under 21 years of age.
- (b) The date of [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8) of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) appointed under this section in May or June of any year is the date of graduation of [cadets](/usc/10/801.md?p=6) or midshipmen from the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) Academy, the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Naval Academy, or the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Air Force Academy, as the case may be, in that year. The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned shall establish the date of [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8) of all other [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) appointed under this section.
- (c) In computing length of service for any purpose, an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) appointed under this section may not be credited with enlisted service for the period covered by his [advanced training](/usc/10/2101.md?p=3), other than any period of enlisted service performed on or after August 1, 1979, as a member of the Selected [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–647, title II, § 201(1), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1066; amended Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title V, § 517(a)(1), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2407; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, § 507(a)(1), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2512.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–201 substituted “performed on or after August 1, 1979, as a member of the Selected Reserve” for “while serving on active duty other than for training after July 31, 1990, while a member of the Selected Reserve”.

1992—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–484 inserted before period at end “, other than any period of enlisted service while serving on active duty other than for training after July 31, 1990, while a member of the Selected Reserve”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Benefits Not To Accrue for Periods Prior to September 23, 1996

Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, § 507(c), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2512, provided that: “No increase in pay or retired or retainer pay shall accrue for periods before the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 23, 1996] by reason of the amendments made by this section [amending this section, sections 2107 and 2107a of this title, and section 205 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services].”