Yes you’ll be an E-2.

Once you complete your bachelors degree you can apply for OTS (officer training school). They look at your type of degree, GPA, yearly performance reports from your time as an enlisted AF member, recommendation letters from commanders, etc. If you are accepted then you’d leave active service as an enlisted person, go to OTS for 3 months, graduate as a 2nd lieutenant and then go to your tech school to learn your new job before starting over as an officer. If you are prior enlisted you get paid more as an officer as well because they count your time as enlisted, which is nice.

There are also several commissioning programs available to enlisted members such as AECP which is where you leave active service and they pay you as a Staff Sergeant (E-5) to do nothing but go to school and complete your degree, then you become an officer. It’s highly competitive obviously and only available for certain degrees like nursing, engineering, language, foreign studies, etc but it’s an amazing program.

Or you can just use the $4,500 a year that the AF gives you to complete your degree, then apply for OTS. That’s what I did. I finished my bachelors last month after being in for almost five years. I won’t apply for OTS for another couple of years though because I got a re-enlistment bonus, and if I were to leave for OTS before half of that enlistment is up, I’d have to give back my bonus, which would be bad.

An 85 is a good score, that should qualify you for most jobs. There may be a couple you won’t qualify for, but not many.

So if you want a medical job, you could put all 5 medical jobs down. If they can’t get you any of those, you could put the general category down, which contains all of the medical jobs. You then may still get a medical job, but you could also get something like public affairs, in-flight refueling, firefighter, services, security forces, etc. It’s kind of a catch-all category, so you’d have a much better chance of getting something you don’t want than something you do. For instance they always need cops, so they’d probably be more likely to make you a cop than one of the rare medical slots.

Not saying you’ll be a cop for sure if you put general down, but that’s just one of the options you could end up with.

Let me know if you have other questions.

This is a very informative site! I have been researching things about the Air Force, and this is by far one of the most informative.

Here’s my question?
I’m 18 and i just graduated in May, i went to M.E.P.S and i signed my reserve contract. I’m however going to be active duty i am just waiting for them to give me a job and a DoD. So im currently in DEP. I tried looking up how you change ranks, and i can’t find anything Enlisting as a E-1 after BMT how would you change rank? And i talked to the liason at MEPS about 6 year enlistment would you say that would be a good choice?

First of all i wanted to thank you and say congrats on this awesome site!

Ive learned alot with all of the questions and answeres VERY HELPFUL!!!

I just have a question about the ASVAB..i know its an all around test of knowlegde but could you give me some advice as to what i should study up on?