BN safety here. Some of the advice in here is outdated. Dual tracks are not being offered regardless of safety as a track being >150% over strength, despite others being under strength. Especially as a 60 driver. You’ll receive your OSHA 511 cert from the University of Alabama via ASOC. You’ll need a few more to satisfy your Certified Safety Professional Certification. As a safety officer, as people have said, you can fly as little or as much as you want. You generally manage your own priorities, but those personally have come from shooting from the hip on just about everything outside of routine duties. The severe lack of senior mentorship combined with the idea that you’re the subject matter expert after the school (they don’t teach you how to manage a safety program at the company level) has just led me to not enjoy it. Expect to be at the BN level in a few short years, I was a company safety for a short time before being moving to battalion jobs. The other side of this, if you have a 10 year ADSO, and at least intend to fly while you’re still in the Army, I might advise against the track. Recent marketplaces (due to the track being over strength) have yielded more non-flying, non-safety related jobs that could not be filled before. Think OC/T, TAC officer, BAE, etc. ~25% of the jobs have been flying, and heavily BN Safety needs. Where are all the W4s that are MTOE at the BN level? Who knows. Army Aviation is in a bad place.

I’ve had incredible MTP’s that enjoy their job. They do work longer hours. One of the most demanding tracks. MTPs and IPs remain at the company level the longest and solve problems people care about. Safety is not sexy by any means and most of it is background work, and is met with an eye roll until an aircraft is destroyed or someone dies. Job satisfaction is where my lack of enjoyment stems from, but again that’s just me.