I am going to be brutally honest right now.
I am not sure that the I just want to serve in any branch and any rank in any position would be the position/perspective I would take, especially if you ask for rated.
Rated requires a gut wrenching year of academics and flying that makes any SA BCT/ C4C year look like middle school.
Please read raimius's blog on the AFA thread regarding UPT. It is 6 days a week studying, chair flying, and I mean 18 hours a day. The wash out rate is higher than WP. Much higher.
~ DS started with 28 at IFS, 21 completed and moved onto UPT. Started again with 28, and lost 25% before they tracked. Lost another 25% before they winged.
~~ IOWS it is a beaacchhh of a year.
Your commitment for rated is concurrent with AFROTC, but realize for rated the clock starts the minute you wing.
~ Commission in May 16, start UPT the following March 17. The clock starts @ April 2018.
~~ The clock for any ROTC grad be it rated or non-rated doesn't start until they have reported to their their 1st base. That can take up to a year.
~~~ You bust UPT/UNT/RPA/ABM and they have the option to say good bye forever!
You place rated on that sheet, than you accept the fact that you have to go rated if selected.
Sorry, but that last post gave me the
You are doing this for your folks, and not because you want to be an AF rated officer?
I mean this with the utmost kindness, but if your CoC is a rated officer, they would see through this and I am not sure they would rank you very highly if you said the same thing to their face.
~ CoC is a huge chunk for SFT selection.