I am in college/trade school. The question is that it want to be a military aviator. More so AF. Should I join the AFNG now while in school and switch later if they let me or wait to Join the AF after getting my degree.

 

Depends--At the end of the long(er) range goal: Do you want to work full time? Know that it may not be possible when the time comes as a pilot in an ANG unit. If not, part time? Don't know what your other career goals are so giving advice is difficult. Active duty flying has many pitfalls too. I suspect that you need to build a lot of time to compete for an airline job right? If I am correct being in the Guard or Reserve is better assuming you can fly enough and can work enough there or elsewhere to feed yourself.

In the ANG, UPT may not be possible at all either, but if so, I would think getting their "only" slot (most probably singular) easier from a unit you are already a part of.

Another possiblity is to get into ROTC and take the Active duty job/UPT. I think commitments for UPT on active duty are back to 8 years, but not sure. They might still be 10! Keep in mind too that it doesn't include UPT time of 1 year so it's really 9 or 11 years.

Trying to give you tastes of routing since I don't really have enough info to help more. Let me know...Philly

 

Tough question to answer not knowing your final plans, here's my input. If you want a part time flying job, join the guard as soon as possible and you will stand a better chance of getting a pilot slot. If you want fulltime active duty AF then go to ROTC. They can put you through either a two year of four year prgram with a commision at the end. Make sure they give you a guaranteed pilot slot before you start your final two years in ROTC. If they do not, you can stay and compete for a slot later, but I wouldn't recommend it. At that point I would get out of ROTC or don't start. Then after college, I would talk to a recruiter and atempt OTS. Once again do not accept the OTS slot unless they guarantee you a pilot slot.