Form Af 133 – Fill Out and Use This PDF

OATH OF OFFICE (MILITARY PERSONNEL)

PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT

AUTHORITY: 5 USC 3331, Oath of Office.

PRINCIPAL PURPOSE: Documents your acceptance of an appointment or commission to an office of honor or trust under the Government of the United States by taking and subscribing to the required oath before entering upon the duties of such office. Form becomes a part of your master personnel record. The Social Security Number (SSN) is used to make positive identification of you and your records.

ROUTINE USES: None.

DISCLOSURE IS VOLUNTARY: Failure to complete this form and furnish your SSN may result in termination of all processing and appointment action.

FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE OATH

1.When appointed or elected to an office of honor or trust under the Government of the United States, a person is required to take and subscribe the oath prescribed by 5 USC 3331 before entering upon the duties of office.

2.Ten USC 626 and 8394 eliminate the necessity of executing oath on promotion of officers.

3.Air Force officer's oaths of office should be taken before: (a) a civil officer authorized by the laws of the United States or local municipal law to administer oaths; (b) a commissioned officer of any U.S. Armed Force component, including reserves, whether active duty or retired (includes commissioned Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard warrant officers); (c) a warrant officer who is serving on active duty as an adjutant, assistant adjutant, acting adjutant, or personnel adjutant. (Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard warrant officers, W-1, receive their appointment by warrant and are not eligible to administer the oath unless serving on active duty as adjutants as listed above.) Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard chief warrant officers (CWO), W-2 through W-5, are appointed in those grades by commission and are authorized to administer oaths. Army CWOs appointed on or after 8 May 1986 receive their appointment by commission and are authorized to administer oaths. Before 8 May 1986, they received their appointment by warrant and are not eligible to administer oaths unless they were later granted a CWO appointment by commission or are serving on active duty as an adjutant as listed above. Retired Air Force warrant officers received their appointment by warrant and are not authorized to administer oaths.

4.If a civil official administers the oath, it must bear the official seal of the person administering it. If the official does not use a seal, his/her capacity to administer oaths must be certified to under seal by a clerk of court or other proper local official., If a notary administers the oath, the expiration date of his or her commission must be included (if required by the State concerned) and the AF Form 133 must bear the notarial seal or indicia. Return the AF Form 133 to the headquarters tendering the appointment.

INSTRUCTIONS

Complete this form in full upon acceptance of an appointment or commission in the Air Force. Use typewriter, if available, or print using black ink. Form may also be completed on a computer using PerFORM PRO Form Filler software.

TYPE OF COMMISSION (Check One)

REGULAR AIR FORCE

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE(Temporary)

RESERVE OF THE AIR FORCE

I,

		FULL NAME (First, middle, last)		SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
having been appointed a					, United States Air Force do
		(Grade in which appointed)		(Category, if appropriate) *

solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, SO HELP ME GOD.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, at
this	day of	, 20	.

* Enter appropriate category as follows: MC, DC, NC, MSC, BSC, JA, Chaplain, or Chaplain Candidate.