The cliche but very true statement is every mission set is important. There are some that are much more tangible to see the impact you’re having on the guys on the ground (attack comes to mind) but the less “sexy” mission sets are just as important to keep the military functioning.
The good thing about airframe communities is that when you get into it, almost without exception, even if it wasn’t your first choice during selection, you’ll end up indoctrinated into thinking your airframe is the best one to fly.
The other reality is that deployments are drying up. Our military will continue to operate overseas, but the shape of what that looks like and where at constantly shifts depending on politically what we are being asked to support. Training to get better so that we’re ready to deploy at a moment’s notice somewhere to do what the country needs us to do and build relationships with our ground customers that we support is always going to be a reality, and like I said, some of my most fun flying has been either stateside or in a non combat environment overseas even though it was all “training.”
I’m not saying you don’t have a valid point for asking. The chance for having a real world mission outside of combat is actually one of the reasons I didn’t go attack because I wanted to make a difference. My airframe provides the opportunity for humanitarian work domestically that I’ve had the chance to do that gave me a real job even when we were training at home station.
I would focus on doing well to get to the point you can make your best bet at choosing the mission set you’re looking for. I would just caution you though that life as a pilot isn’t like Top Gun or similar portrayals. The majority of your time, in the current state of affairs, will be training based and your chance of getting into a dogfight somewhere, unless we kick off a hot war somewhere that I really don’t want to go in the next decade, are pretty nonexistent