Second what everyone has said about not knowing where you will be 10 years down the road. I can tell you that nearly no one in my UPT class has had a career that mirrored what they expected upon graduation.

My first bit of advice to all UPT students is to do your absolute best and let the chips fall where they may. If, for some reason, you ended up in an assigment you didn't want - it would be better to know that you did your best and the needs of the service prevailed rather than knowing that you got a less than desirable assignment because you didn't work as hard as you should have.

My last bit of advice to new guys is that every MWS plays a larger role in the overall effort than you can imagine. I flew strategic airlift/tankers before I flew fighters (there is one big sign that you can't predict a career path). While I played a significant tactical role in the fighter, I played a global role in the heavy. For a while, if it was on the national news, I was there. I also did the AETC thing after all of that, playing a role in the next generation of military pilots. With all of those missions, the only one where I was able to realistically predict what things were going to be like was the AETC tour.