I didn't mean specifically the Army. Once again, I wasn't in the Army. And no, all the other branches didn't make their "requirements more stringent".

The AF was already selective of who they let in before the troop surge. That's why it was almost impossible for someone enlisted leaving another branch to get into the AF unless they had a degree.

The AF is the second biggest branch, so of course they would have more enlisted with degrees. But in relation to OP's post, and the route I was trying to tell him to take to avoid deployment, I was telling him to get an office job in the Army vs going in the AF as a mechanic. They get deployed quite often depending on the wing. I've known many AF wingers, and very few have degrees.

I know many Army admin guys, and lots of them have degrees because they wouldn't deploy that often. And if they did, they could take online courses at their posts. It's hard for a mechanic to do that on a deployment to the work tempo.

That's all I was saying.

I'm not allowing "bias to influence my reasoning", because you don't even know that branch I was in, and you wouldn't know who I would be biased with/ in the first place.

Of course it depends on the job you do, but in general, the Air Force has the best living conditions. Damn.

OP's goal is to go to college. Not have "the best living conditions" sitting on a flight line in the middle of Afghanistan. The AF could easily out him there. Vs, another job in the army with a low deployment rate.

As I said before, he shouldn't go in the first place if all he wants is an easy way out for college. He'll just wind up hating life. He should just take student loans like everyone else, and go in as an officer if that's his goal. He'll get treated like a king in any branch this way, tbh..

If you would read the the rest of these posts and quit trying to fucking cry and argue, you would see that I've already explained his a million times.