Once you have been selected for the opportunity to become an air force officer you must go through a security clearance. This is basically a background check on steroids. They do this so they can make sure they can trust you to keep the government's secrets. Red flags include things like large unpaid debts, multiple jobs you got fired from, references you list that can't vouch for your character, etc... I hope you didn't lie on any forms you signed with the recruiter or MEPS because they will find out, and then you're in trouble. They will do an FBI background check, credit report, and follow many other leads (such as visit your past and present employers, coworkers, references, and family members).
If you do a little research on airforceots.com you will see that many times the recruiter either leaves information off your official forms or messes up dates (or both). The reason you will find this out is because you will be interviewed by someone from the government and they will go over your form line by line. My form was missing both dates and information. It made me feel like a complete idiot trying to remember all the dates I had given my recruiter only to remember a few minutes later that they were wrong. The poor agent had to keep scratching out dates, times and addresses because I couldn't remember them correctly. I never remember seeing the official document that was sent to be reviewed for my application, only the page where I signed. That's pretty bad because that signature is law and any false or misleading information can be severely punishable by law. My recruiter told me to just put down what I remembered and not to worry about the parts I didn't, but the agent that interviewed me was not happy about that advice.
I have nothing to hide but I didn't make a good impression by mis-remembering information. My advice is to keep EVERY form you have EVER given your recruiter so that when you are scheduled for the interview you can just hand them the papers you gave the recruiter. The agency that does the clearance won't make the final decision to accept you into the air force or not. That decision is made by the AF itself. It's better to be upfront about past wrongdoings than to have the investigators find out that you lied about it. So from the moment you sign your first document with your recruiter make sure you are upfront about EVERYTHING!
