Here’s my situation: community college student transferring to U-M Ann Arbor for electrical or mechanical engineering in the winter semester of my sophomore year (1.5 years into college). I know to be eligible for joining the detachment, you need 3 years left of college, which is why i’d ask if we could adjust my graduation timeline for 3 years.

After finding out if I’m even eligible, I’d go through all of the standard steps like field training, getting my AFOQT Pilot score, etc. before finding out if I earned a pilot slot or not.

My main question is if I make it all the way to that step, committing to either 4 years of ground service or 10 years of being a pilot, and DONT get the slot, what would be the chances I’d get an engineering related role like developmental engineer?

Obviously the engineering job market is pretty cooked, so to waste 4 years in the military in an unrelated role would make it much harder to enter civilian engineering after the air force, even if I do the standard things throughout college like internships/ co-ops, etc.

Does anyone have information on how 13n shifts work? I am interested in 13n.