I have a NROTC scholarship, when I get out as an officer what are my chances at flying fighter aircraft?

The Pilot selection process is very hard. Most who apply are turned down for many reasons. After selection many are lost during training.

I don't have the total numbers, however I would guess about 1 in 20 make it to training and 2 out of 5 make to be a pilot.

Then you have aircraft assignment process. That is when you are matched with an Airframe. Most everyone wants to fly fighters (some who want to fly after they get out choose Cargo planes, C5, C17)

Since Air Force needs come first, and we have a greater need for cargo pilots most don't get what they want.

Most of the pilots I know that fly C17, C5 and C130, wanted to fly fighters.

High scores during training and a degree in aviation will help you, there are no guarantees.

Good luck

If you want to fly Fighter jets, be they Army, Navy, Marine, or Air Force, you will need a good education and a great deal of luck. There are 400,000 service men and women in the Air Force and only 2,500 fighters. If the Air Force is where you want to be, you can look forward to F-15's, F-16's, F-22's, and JSF-35's. A lot of potential fighter pilots also apply for the A-10 ground attack aircraft. The military trains more drone operators than pilots and the pilot number continues to fall annually as UAVs take an ever more omnipresent role on the modern battlefield. Not to say you can't get into a fighter, but you will have to find a big way to get noticed by your superiors. Do what the first comment said to folow that career path. Don't let the first comment scare you though, you can and will find a job at the airlines without military experience. In the 50's and 60's, and even through the 80's, nearly all airline pilots were in fact military because the military had trained an obscene number of pilots in the 1940's, 50's, and 60's (WWII, Korea, Vietnam). However, I know several civilian-only pilots at major national carriers (Delta, American, United). Finding an airline job is competitive, and military pilots do get special consideration, but former servicemen everywhere get special consideration (it's not totally undeserved, either). There is a global pilot shortage at the airline qualified level tens of thousands strong, and it is making its way here to the US as well. In the next 10 years I believe the US fleet of carriers is going to need some 20-40 thousand pilots and that number of pilots qualified for airline service does not exist, nor does the capacity to produce them in this country, not to mention the lack of pilots in the ever expanding East Asian markets. In regards to the intensity of civilian training, you won't be doing Immelman Turns in a 737 and your A380 can't do a cuban eight, but if they could, it might interest you to know that the world record for sustained g-force in an aircraft was set by a civilian in a light prop aircraft while performing a half-cuban-eight (12g). Look, I don't want to start any fights or discredit the military, but the fundamentals of attitude instrument flying and the Federal Aviation Regulations are the same for everyone, and no intensity of training can make that any more or less difficult. The only tangible difference is the amount you'll have to pay for flight time and the speeds you'll be going when you're in the cockpit, and for a lot of people, that makes the difference. As a side note in defense of civilian education, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is one of the finest academic institutions in the world, being nationally ranked first and third (two campuses) in Aerospace/Aeronautical engineering, and taking top honors for it's flight school as well, ahead of the Air Force Academy. P.S. If you get even luckier you can conquer Wall Street with an international business degree and buy your very own fighter jet.