Originally Posted by
muppetofthenorth
Are you sure? We haven't used Chipmunks for AEF since 1996?
i suspect he uses the speech marks for a reason....
As someone above said, assuming you're discounting flying as a career (best guess at the moment is about a 10 year minimum, but more realistic is 12), then a couple of branches would allow you to do a relatively short career. However, as is also pointed out above, the army has generally done a better job of providing for that kind of thing.
If I'm honest, you're more likely to get something fulfilling in that time as there's a good chance in most of the RAF branches that the first job you have will be something fairly benign to allow you to find your feet.
caveat:not a recruiter but not an old suffer either....