Pros
Great health benefits, FREE. I have went into the emegery room EKG, stiches out of pocket. Root Canals.. really just great. Free housing, if you get married... free money.. a baby more money. Also something that I did not realize is the tax breaks. I did not understand this until I received my degree and got out. Currently I work and I am single and make 50k. 2 years ago I was a single person and making 30k, but with the tax breaks and the "basic" pay I only make 200 more dollars a pay check. And com'on as troop who went to iraq, you are in the AIR FORCE, NOT THAT BAD,, that is unless you are Security forces
Cons
I can only look from it from a enlisted point of view. Pretty much you are looked down upon towards officers. Regardless if they are the most dumbest of indivduals. Pretty much a big barrier between officers and enlisted, think of the King and the pesant. And of course the deployments. From an enlisted stand point if you are not a good test taker... you may want to rethink. To gain E-5 and above its all about a test.... No board, no seeing a person managing skills a test. This consequently makes for some horrible mid level managment and well as upper.