I agree, as an Active Duty B-52 pilot, I can say just rolling through the military to get to the Airlines is probably not a smart idea. You need to want to be a military pilot first. However, if you want to serve but not full time, I highly recommend ditching ROTC in favor of trying to get a guard or reserve flying job. There is not one day that goes by that I don't wish I would have done the guard/reserve thing from the start instead of finishing ROTC and going active duty. I don't mind active duty, but here in the B-52 community and I imagine most others, is that flying is pretty much your additional duty, and not your primary duty like it is supposed to be. Its kind of painful to be active duty right now. Oh, and not to mention you have a very, very high chance now of getting a UAV right out of pilot training. Now that is a suck factor, you bust your but for 54 weeks and all you end up with is a remote control airplane for at least 3 years.