No AF Reserve on Mandatory Deployment?

Just curious.....how did you determine that your "1 month old baby" was "concerned about deployment time"?

The best way to find out is get with the local recruiter and plan a site visit to the unit you'll be assigned to when commissioned. Ask deployment length and dwell time (at home time between deployments).

True or not.....that kind of thing can change at any minute.

The only information that you can truly trust is what is in writing. Most recruiters don't have a clue what really goes on in the nurse corps. Saying all that you have to figure it is going to take you 9-12 months to even enter the af after you start your paperwork so any information like that is transitional at best. You and your family should be ready for you to deploy from day one of entering the service or you just shouldn't join. A lot of people do volunteer for deployments for various reasons but it is not something you can rely on. You could easily go years without deploying or be deployed within the first couple of months of joining the af depending on your speciality etc.

I don't know what you're looking to do in the AF Reserves, but I can tell you that it is different than the reserves in the other branches of the military. In the Army, NG, Marines...if your unit is activated, your going (with few exceptions). The Air Force likes to send an all-volunteer group to complete missions if at all possible. So, if a mission comes up it is offered to the people in the unit (they rotate which units are up for missions). If they have enough people that are deployable and volunteer, the mission goes. If not, they will ask for volunteers from other units that are deployable...if they fill the needed slots, the mission goes. If, after getting as many volunteers as possible, they are still not mission capable, they will fill the mission with deployable personel from the original unit that did not volunteer.

That's roughly (very roughly) how it works. Over simplified, but an idea.

That being said, wtbcrna is right, if you join the military, you should be prepared to serve when called upon to do so.