What I find interesting is that the OP hasn't been seen for 13 days and there's 5 pages of discussion.
This your first time on the Interwebz?
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Anyway, we did see a few Academy and ROTC cones try what @HAL Pilot refers to - DOR on their first day of school. At least in the cases I was personally aware of, they weren't drafted, but weren't as cunning as they believed themselves to be, and thought they could volunteer for aviation, DOR immediately, and skate on their commitment altogether. Letting USNA/ROTC kids go home without a bill was very very briefly a force-shaping policy...like single-digits numbers of students...but CNATRA wanted to avoid RIFing students who were meeting stan and wanted to be there.
I don't know current policy, but 7-8 years ago, they just got redesed to SWO.
I agree that I never saw the point of drafting someone into Air (or Nuke). Aptitude doesn't count for much if there's no desire. Yeah, yeah, bloom where you're planted, etc, but we've all known plenty of dudes who really wanted to fly but wound up absolutely miserable in the airplane. Expecting someone to power through that and achieve anyway when they don't want to be there defies psychology.
I suppose the logic goes, if we're looking at a draft, we don't have enough qualified, willing bodies for the billets anyway. So we pick someone qualified and unwilling. If we don't, that billet would go unfilled. Therefore, either the draftee winds up loving flying, or he quits, in which case we've lost nothing. Not saying I agree with it, just that I follow the logic. I just think the Navy's probably better off leaving a billet unfilled, and, say, throwing it out there to j.g.s from other communities who want to lat-transfer, rather than gambling on finding a prodigy amongst the unwilling.
I have no data to back this up, but I suspect that for every genuine draftee cone, there are three or four who use "Well, I was drafted into aviation, I never wanted to be there in the first place" as an story for their friends for their DOR/attrition.