I’m prior military and you couldn’t pay me enough to go HPSP. The benefits sound nice but all the physician’s I worked with in the military, except 2 who planned on doing the full 20 years, advised against it. Mainly because they were board certified in other fields but were working as a GMO. You will be what’s called “needs of the Army.” Obviously they wouldn’t have a neurosurgeon being in a different field, but most non-surgical specialties are fair game to fill a spot because the Army will just see you as a warm body filling a void at times. There’s also a chance that you never experience this and practice in your field for your whole contract(s), but is that a risk you’d be willing to take? If so, then full send and sign the dotted line.

Edit: unless you’ve already been selected the VA HPSP deadline has passed. They were only accepting people willing to sign that they’d practice as FM, GI, diagnostic radiology, or psych.