+1 Kinnem.
If you look at the AF as any kind of insight it is going to impact you somewhere down the line. They announced their cuts about 6 months ago.
Currently, AFROTC has informed the class of 14 non-rated cadets that if they don't get enough of them to voluntarily leave than they will be force to do a RIF (reduction in forces). Their AF career will be over before it even started.
Thus, the knee bone is connected to....
Now, remember that the military budget is like a pendulum it swings both ways. Nobody on 9/10/01 saw what would happen the next day. Had 9/11 never occurred these cuts may have occurred years ago.
If you look at the last big cuts that occurred in 92/93 it mimics our economy today. There were less scholarships available during those years, but the pendulum swung back while those cadets were in college. In 98 the military that had seen pay raises like they are seeing today, personnel that saw RIFs and SERBs, low promotion rates now saw double digit pay raises, higher promotion rates and no RIFs/SERBs. That is how fast the pendulum swung back.
IOWs you have 4 years before you really need to be concerned, especially if you follow the advice given by 99% of posters when it comes to the scholarship. Make sure you can afford to attend the college without the scholarship. They allow that first year as a no harm no foul because many cadets decide that this life does in reality does not match up to the illusion they created in their mind.
Good luck.
Now kinnem, thanks for placing that silly song in everyone's mind...what bones are connected to the hip bone?