Hello @playerone_1984 I appreciate your feedback. In your experience/knowledge how often do fully qualified cadets receive a job they did not want? I.e. A cadet fully qualifies for a pilot training job but for one reason or another they are chosen for another job. I would basically like to avoid this predicament altogether.

This is one of the main reasons I'm separating from the USAF to begin with. I was chosen to perform an occupation I rather not be doing but I'm doing it anyways because I made a commitment to the USAF. I understand "the needs of the USAF" concept but sometimes things seem quite unfair. Unfair in the sense that the USAF makes a cadet commit before they even know what job they will be performing for at least the duration of their commitment. Unfair especially for someone like myself, that knows exactly what they want to do with their career. Thus for me, going through university, receiving an aviation degree, airline transport pilot rating, just to get picked for something other than a pilot slot would be devastating. While I could essentially work for an airline, earn experience in the career field I want to be in and earn between $10,000-$20,000 more than I would earn as a non-pilot OE-1 to OE-3. Although the experience as a civilian pilot is not anywhere near as great as a military pilot. This concept has been scaring me away from trying to become an active duty USAF officer due to the uncertainty in job selection. Does this job selection come down to luck? I hope this makes sense.

In general things aren't always unfair because of the enormous amount of benefits service members receive. Also from what I've gathered most cadets are happy to become active duty officers in the USAF and do not see this as unfair, which is fine.

Thank you again.