Good Luck in the Air Farce. I spent 7 and 1/2 years there. You'll be a housemaid for six weeks, a student/gardener/houseboy for however long your tech school is and someone's whipping boy the rest of your "career". Make sure you got a steel plated back and can dodge knives with the eyes (in the back of your head) that you use to watch your back. Bet your recruiter didn't tell ya' that!!!! Seventeen and flying that, huh? Did your recruiter fail to mention that you have to have a college degree in order to be an officer, much less even to be a pilot? Wow. I bet he even got you to sign in for six years, so you could go in as an E-3. You'll wish on many occasions you could get those six years back. Like when you're on base detail and you have to pick up trash all day for a month. I'm only telling you this to save your soul. But if you want, go ahead and Aim High.