Um, it’s hardly “free” if only available to those who will serve in the US military afterwards?
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Or, as I mentioned, non-military services like the public health service. Giving back to society is hardly an unreasonable burden.
But unlike Public Health organisations elsewhere, the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps can be militarised at the stroke of a pen. It’s one of your uniformed services.
Not quite the same at all. 
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In theory, yes, if there was some sort of massive Ebola epidemic or something requiring military law to contain it. It’s also why the head public health official in the US is called a Surgeon General. But that’s not very relevant to the day-to-day jobs of members of the public health corps.
I can see the logic of public health being a uniformed service when dealing with a true public health catastrophe. Even if it instinctively feels rather odd looked at from where I sit. So you understand my bias, I looked at the idea the idea of joining the RAF when I was student. The opportunity to be paid to study then graduate debt free and with a freebie pilots license thrown in was very tempting … But in the end I didn’t want to be a weapons repair technician.
Do medical graduates of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences get to choose their posting and specialisation once newly minted doctors? If so and its possible to freely choose to serve in the public health corps (rather than an armed service), then it does sound pretty cool.
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