Officer Packet

[sarahmac]

The military commissioning route is a perfect example of a check box requirement. As long as the final degree meets the requirements, you can work on the other requirements of the package and forget about it. Until you get to be senior commissioned and politics become a bigger factor than skills, any "applicable" degree will suit your needs.

YMMV. This may be true for Navy, but not AF. Not only do specific degrees qualify you for specific jobs according to the AFOCD CIP Education Matrices (you get a file code depending on the specific degree and type), but often they only take certain jobs on certain boards. So someone who goes and gets a checkbox degree is going to have a really hard time getting past a board.

It's super important for AF folks to first know which officer jobs they're going for and to select a major on the feeder list for that job. It's not like other services where that's only true for engineering, law, chaplaincy etc., most jobs are affected.