This article examines the professional trajectories of military doctors. The interviews with 28 military medical personnel are interpreted within the framework of dramaturgical sociology. The results are grouped into a tetrad based on the underlying motivations for choosing their profession, which are correlated with clusters in I. Yu. Surkova`s typology of active military personnel. The analysis of satisfaction with social status components was conducted, and groups of stability and risk of professional maladjustment were formed. The interview results showed the “pragmatists” and “status” military doctors, whose initial expectations were based on a pragmatic assessment of their future profession, positively evaluate the social components of the profession. Military doctors whose expectations were romantic and heroic, criticize their current expectations.