Anyone in the Air Force?

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chrisray21,

As for you officer/enlisted question, molamann is correct, but there are other crucial differences too - namely the fact that you need a college degree to be an officer, whereas you don't to enlist.

About the whole Iraq thing, you have to realize that being in the military requires you to be deployable (worldwide). They don't want you if you can't or aren't willing to be that. Your family needs to be aware of that too. You might think that the Air Force is less likely to be involved in hot zone operations, but that simply isn't true. Every Air Force career field is susceptible to deployments (some more than others however). The good news is that typically Air Force members deploy for shorter amounts of time than other service members do.

You could check out Air National Guard or Army National Guard, too. I'm pretty sure they don't have to worry about the sandbox. But I can't really speak on that, as far as benefits or anything else really.