No. It has little to nothing to do with being a pediatrician. It's a medicine in general thing. Some aspects of it are peds related (obviously given my screen name) but for the most part it's just general stuff.
Congratulations, you're expendable. The Navy really doesn't value you because you are replaceable by the same methods you were obtained, the HPSP. Since there is no penalty to them if you leave, happy or not, and another bulb in the box for the socket you are in (metaphorically, they hope), they will just screw someone else into your job.
The Navy and others services really don't suffer the loss of disappointed GMOs. Magic budget money--that can't be used for anything else anyway--trains those doctors out of sight in civilian institutions. All they have to do is ensure that everyone becomes license-able under the minimum terms available and that there are enough warm bodies to fill the operational side demands. Filling the training slots at PGY2 and above is the least of their worries as there are relatively few of them to begin with compared to internship and GMO slots. You being wanted, appreciated for your sacrifice of delay to your training, or being happy, doesn't fit into their equation.
The only way there becomes a problem is if there aren't enough raw numbers of accessions (they don't even complain much that the quality has dropped to "any willing applicant" levels, go figure) or if some authority outside their self-certifying circle says using incompletely-trained doctors who have been denied opportunity for full residency training is unethical and thus forbidden.
A little while back, poster
i want out posed a hypothetical that the Navy might offer wholesale FP training (too bad if you had your heart set on ortho) which you might have to refuse and which by refusing you might find yourself legally declaring yourself to be adequately trained for your assignment (one you had not done, so how would you know?) With the crummy ethics I know the Navy medical department to operate under, and the way I know they treat professionals in their employment, I would not put it past them. They are that mendacious.