I wouldn't count on it. You can't use the Army as a convenient stepping stone to getting in the Air Force. The Army is trying to fill its own physician vacancies, not doing the legwork so you can just jump ship when the mood suits you. Each of the services has only so many scholarships to offer, and each has a certain amount of money budgeted for the HPSP program. If you think that the Army is going to spend its HPSP money to give the Air Force a physician, then you don't know jack **** about the military.Ydangerzone said:
The Army is trying to sign up physicians to take care of its soldiers, not take care of servicemembers in general. That's why you have to go to branch specific health care recruiters to sign up for the HPSP, instead of just going to some DOD recruiter. Think about it...how many physicians would be in the Army or the Navy if they could easily switch branches to the Air Force?
Homunculus said:
, albeit rare. This is the process....you need to contact the head of HPSP in the Army and the AF about this, you DO need a decent reason, but does not have to be catastrophic, but the BIG CLINCHER is that it is a "ONE FOR ONE" deal. No service wants to lose docs. If you are Army and want to go AF or vice versa, there eeds to be a HPSP student in the opposite service who wants to "swap" (sometimes the people at the top of this process have one person from one branch, and just need the person fromt he other branch). It is actually a very long process of sending in letters, Med school transcripts and continous contacting both services (you know how hard it is to deal with two branches????, this will probably be you biggest problem along with finding another in another branch who wants to switch). They will review and it does go thru if all parts are in place, but it is rare because most dont try with ALL the necessary steps due to nay sayers preventing them from even begining the proccess. Both services lose nothing by this process and each will write a letter reccommending " We reccommend this interservice transfer oh behalf of each servicemember...blah blah blah" Remember you will be dealing with 2 services, at the top of HPSP transfer process, it takes investigating and a lot of time (6months to 1yr) and need another person in the opposite services desiring to transfer to your service, and it doesnt need to invlove marriage, but that is the best reason. Good luck. 
