I agree, but make sure you do extensive homework, becasue I can tell you with absolute certenty that you will not pilot anything without a bachlores degree, and if you try to get your BA or BS while enlisted you are setting yourself up for failure. I went all out and dident make it, and you should too just make sure you do it right and dont try to force something that is not going to happen otherwise you will get burned. Flight school does not work by being a private and sgt schmuck sees your doing a good job so you go to flight school. There are only 3 ways to become an officer and all require a degree (there is a 4th way to become an officer but not for pilots), you are also racing against time because age is a big deal with flight school, with flight school its not about being qualified its about being competitive, if the age cut off is 29 you better be less than 27. It sounds like you already have not been accepted to the air force academy so you have 2 remaining options, if you go OTS there literally is a check list that I have posted here before to meet quals to even think about flight and you can get all of that done and the officer recruiter can say sorry no slots try again all while the clock is ticking. Just make sure you dont try to force things by signing up hoping you can somehow "work hard" and get a slot, all the leg work to get a pilot slot (for the OTS route anyways) is done before you ever put on a uniform. And I would disregard what some others on here say, gunny patoloco and harryP have brain damage, they sugar coat things to entice and make ignorant comments. If you want to be a grunt and crawl through the mud then listen to gunny if you want to fly talk to an AF officer recruiter.

Im not enlisted, im in my second year of AFROTC and getting ready for field training this summer. So when I graduate I will have a BS in Professional Aeronautics AFROTC is the only way that will gaurantee me being an officer.

what is professional aeronautics, is that aeronautical engineering? AFROTC will gaurantee you become an officer but will not even come close to gauranteeing you will become a pilot. The nice thing about OTS is you can get all of your ducks in a row before signing anything then you dont have to waste 8 years of your life in the military not flying and you can use your aeronautical engineering degree in the civilian market to realize your full income potential and by your own extra 300 high performance air craft or whatever (which is what im doing) but you will never make enough in the military to accomplish that, so if you dont get the slot you wont be flying, I guess you could buy a cessna or something but that is not the same thing as flying an acrobatic aircraft and between an extra 300 and a 70 year lease on a hanger at a paved runway airport your looking at about 250K plus 5K annual at a minimum to operate and maintain the aircraft. If your passion is to be in the military regardless of your job then keep doing what your doing if your true passion is flying you dont want to make decisions that can hinder you from taking to the skys, for thoes with true passions of flight, service to country takes a back seat to the goal of being an aviator. Aviators and pilots are not run of the mill soldiers they have a passion and when the institution interferes with that passion that institution becomes a broken vehical to your goal (the whole service before self blah blah is secondary to flying for thoes whoes heart is flying) and a new vehical must be established, peoples opinions of you signed up honor this do that is all back ground noise to actually strapping in a cocpit and clear for take off its go time no military mouth piece is going to keep me from that, you need to make sure you tune out a broken vehicals noise otherwise you will look back on your life with disappointment but hey you will have done your time and you can wear that pride as a little badge in the VFW but that will not change the fact that you rode a broken vehical for 8 years and will be getting older (and flying acrobatics in the civilian world requires as much conditioning as in the military so you have to secure your finanacing ASAP before your too old to fly). If you just want to be an officer and dont care if you fly then none of this matters. Just make sure not to ride the broken vehical, despite everyones touted retoric.

Being an Air Force Officer is my dream, not being a pilot, the whole pilot job is just one of those added bonuses that the military offers. Contributing to the fight for FREEDOM FOR ALL is what Im really in it for, even if im pushing papers behind a dest. I will know that I have a very honorable duty, and that the military is a calling not a conscious choice

Indeed it is, you could say the same for aviation, and the military is just one vehical to realizing the calling to aviation.