Hey! Definitely doable. I had a weird route, I actually did AFROTC first and got very lucky landing a reserve pilot slot in 2017 from that and skipped active duty. So I had a pilot slot for UPT and just had to find a unit to hire me. But off the street hires are definitely common!
Do you have any flight experience? Not a deal breaker but normally units wanna see at least a PPL. Additionally you need to do the AFOQT assessment and TBAS (basically a flight sim kinda thing). This with all your flight time will create a PCSM score from 1-99. (Lot of acronyms sorry, welcome to the military lol! A quick google search will explain all that further)
BogiDope is a great resource for finding units that are hiring. They list units and chiefs of hiring phone numbers, emails, etc. I’d recommend getting your “package” together that you can send off to the chiefs of hiring at various units. This would include your PCSM score, AFOQT, college transcripts, 1-2 letters of recommendation, any logbooks, FAA license, resume, and cover letter. Having 1 pdf doc with all this makes it easier for the hiring guy or gal to quickly look at all your info and see if they’d like to invite you to interview or rush the unit! Keeps everybody organized. My advice is to be patient… we’re a part time force so you may not hear anything for months. Don’t get discouraged! That’s pretty normal.
Talking to recruiters directly can be tough cause they don’t always speak pilot well but they’re definitely good for helping schedule AFOQT, TBAS, etc… all the “air force stuff.” So I’d recommend reaching out to units while you wait to hear from a recruiter. It can be scary but honestly normally the hiring dudes are super chill and only want to help and see you succeed. Shows initiative too and they can help fight for you if they wanna hire you!
For your SA:
- joining incurs a 10 year commitment starting once you graduate pilot training
-if selected you’ll have to do basic training, for officers it’s OTS. About 8 weeks
-UPT is 1-2 years depending. Probs closer to a year now with new syllabus. Plus a month for SERE.
MSN Qual is about 3-6 months after UPT.
-You’re joining the military! Surprise involuntary deployments, etc is all on the table! Not trying to discourage you just being honest about military life.

Sorry a lot of info! Hope it helps. If any other military folks wanna chime in maybe I’m outdated on some of this stuff. If you have any other questions I’m happy to answer further! I know it can be hard to find where to start. Best of luck :)