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What type of MOS qould you be looking at getting into? Is there a reason you are thinking AF vs. other branches? Why officer right off the bat? Why ROTC? NG/Reserve will pay for school just the same.
First of all, you HAVE to be a leader to be an officer. You can make it as an officer even without leadership skills... but those types of officers get their men killed. If you work a paper-pushing desk job, you'll just get other people's troops killed. If you don't want to, can't be or have no interest in leadership, "O" grades are not for you. Most branches will let you sit at E-4 forever (in the NG/R) and not have to worry about leading much of anything. You can always go to OCS later. It's difficult to step from a commissioned to enlisted.
ROTC will make you a cadet. As long as you DO NOT go to Basic/Boot, you cannot be deployed. You will, however, not be earning a normal amount of points towards retirement(benefits). You will get some military experience though. If you do ROTC, but train and belong to a unit you ARE deployable... period!
If you talk to a recruiter... anything that they tell you that sounds good, you MUST get in writing, and that writing MUST be on your enlistment contract... not on a napkin or a business card. If it's not on the contract, you will NOT see it.
The Army has MANY more career options that the other branches (mostly because they perform a larger variety of functions, but with less specialty in most cases). The ARNG has great enlisted options, and great officer options. If you kinda want to lead, but a commission isn't good for you, look at the life of a Non-Com. NCO's do pretty well for themselves.
Frankly, have a game plan before going into it, otherwise you'll get rushed through the enlistment/training process, and you may not end up where you want. Feel free to PM me or email me if you have questions. Despite being Army, I'm quite open-minded about other branches.
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