deshawn,
1st thing, I don't think you made people mad, I think you frustrated the heck out of them, and many felt discussing this with you was like
You were refusing to absorb or acknowledge the opinions of posters that have been there, done that, and got the t shirt.
You kept reiterating the same things over and over again without acknowledging what you need to do to obtain your goal. Great you wanted to be in the military since you were in elementary school, that doesn't equate to being the best choice for the AF. Desire is one thing, it is not the only thing. Every branch will look at you from what you have accomplished now, not how much you desire the what you want in the future.
That being said what they meant by their the least of your problems is ROTC and commissioning via AFROTC as I have stated before is you need to get selected for SFT. That is your biggest problem in front of you. 60% of that selection is PAR, just like scholarships, and the biggest chunk of that is SAT/ACT. 21 is not going to cut it for SFT even with a 4.0 cgpa at college. 24 is the min for a scholarship. Think about it, if one of the biggest chunks is SAT/ACT and you are 10 pts (ACT) off, they select 60%, plus you are non-tech, the least of your problems is making people mad.
Secondly,
I would like to understand how going into the AF benefits your family. There is no benefit to your family, they are not your dependents; unless you are speaking of your future family 10 yrs from now.
Even if we are talking future family, the Navy offers the same bennies as the AF, Army, Marines and CG. If you are assuming that the benefit is not being deployed, you have another wake up call coming from the AF.
Bullet did a lot of deployments for 18 yrs. He was deployed 4-6 months every 18 months, and when he was at home he still went every few months for a 2-3 week TDY. He missed every Halloween from our DS2's 1st (4 mos old) until his 8th. He missed probably 1/2 of my B'days, which was no biggie to me, but our DS1 and DD were born 10 days before mine, so he missed theirs too. He missed 1st Holy Communions, Father/Daughter dances, school graduations, etc. Yes, even when he was flying a desk.
FYI, when flying squadrons go TDY you know who else they bring? Intel. Intel is part of their mission briefing.
If your assumption is Intel is not deployed side by side with operational squadrons, you need to re-think your premise of benefits joining the AF over the Navy.
The only true benefit most military families will tell you is the AF has better housing. Which means squat because the better the housing, the longer the wait time is to move on base. It can take up to 18 months to get into housing.
Finally, I have to ask like others what you mean by networking?
Every branch has a strong network, but the way that network is you have to shine as an AD member. To shine as an AD member you have to get selected for SFT, rank high enough out of SFT to get Intel, and than shine as an AD member.
Intel is probably the number 1 non-rated position out there. When you go up for your AFSC board. That SFT ranking, DG, top 1, 10, 20, 30 ,50% will be part of your score, along with now your AFOQT (AF equiv. to ACT/SAT) and your PFT, cgpa, plus CC rec.
It is great you now know the position, but now is the time to stop putting that dang cart in front of the horse. Start understanding a 2.9, 21 ACT will get you into college, no scholarship(unless 21 was a typo and you meant 31), and for the next 2 yrs that ACT will be the problem for AFROTC.
Take the ACT and SAT over and over again until next June. You cannot afford to have that score on your records if you want to commission in the AF via AFROTC, especially Intel.
