So my fiance is joining the Air Force.

I know several people in the military. One of my good friends served a tour of duty in Iraq in the Airborne, that was some crazy shiite. It's definitely not how the recruiters describe it, but it's also not necessarily a shiity existence. Some people enjoy it, some people hate it. Definitely not for everyone, but it can be a good experience. Obama is probably going to pull the military out of Iraq pretty soon, and so it is likely your fiance won't be going there, and that's the place you're most likely to get killed in.

The serious problem with the military is all the moving. If you're trying to raise kids, it's hard on them because they lose all their friends every couple years. Expect to be placed in anywhere ranging from Germany to Japan or whatever. But, once your fiance gets out of the Air Force, he can go to college pretty much free.

By the way, my Army, Navy and Marines friends consider the Air Force as the "easiest" branch, if that's of any consolation. Marines get shot at, but how are the terrorists going to shoot at a plane mechanic in the middle of a fortified base, or at one of those stealth bombers nuking the crap out of them from near-orbit?

Airforce from my understanding of the peers of who my father worked with during his service worked majoritly around either flying/mechanics with relevance to planes and radio frequency in general. But I wouldn't consider the Airforce a push over just because it's more of the chairforce. My friends older brother died training.

Your fiance is making a good decision if he decides to join, especially in the crisis were in now. You get free housing, free trips across the world, a gurranteed stability. Oh, and if hes being a prick, and I mean something as miniscule as him not helping you wash the dishes you can complain to his commanding officer . My mom was one vindictive peach with that, my dad wouldn't go grocery shopping with her, and his officer (at the time randy, who is best friends with our family) made him scrub toilets to some ridiculous ratio of hour at a grocery store was equilavent to 60 hours of toilet scrubbing . Lets say my dad was puce whipped until retirement LOL.

I guess worse situation is that the airforce will relocate you and your fiance (if you so choose to be enlisted as his wife by that point) you'd have to find a school which would take your credits.

Then again I'm probably reittering what maspan said. Depending on how many years you have to dedicate (or how close you are to bachlor/associate) you should consider the transission after you get whatever degree you are going for at present time.