The clergymen and women, ordained over two services in Lichfield Cathedral, will be appointed to parishes across Staffordshire, north Shropshire and the Black Country.
They include 55-year-old former RAF sergeant Stephen Reynolds, Catherine McBride, a 44-year-old biologist and curate in Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, who works on drug trials at Glaxo Smithkline, and Darren Fraser, 37, a former schoolboy footballer with the Wolves and West Brom.
Reynolds, who served in the RAF for 22 years and now works as a civil servant for the Department of Work and Pensions, has been appointed as a non-stipendiary ordained local minister at St John's Church in Heath Hayes, Cannock. He said he saw no conflict between serving in the military and the church.
"I think the two stereotypes are actually completely wrong. A good many Christians serve in the Royal Air Force and serve for the greater good of humanity," he said.
"Armed forces aren't there to necessarily go to war. It's never the idea. You always hope to avoid conflict and come to a peaceful conclusion which is what we aim to do in the church as well. I think the two roles meld together quite nicely but different people have different perspectives on the two roles."
He added that the RAF had been good preparation for life as a church minister.
"In the Air Force you have to get along with people because you are thrown together with people from varying backgrounds, different social classes and all sorts; so I think that leads very nicely to a church life where you have got a mixed variety in the congregations.
"The one thing that will be a big major change is not being able to give people orders and having them obeyed straight away which, in the Air Force you obey orders to the best of your ability."
McBride insisted, meanwhile, that faith and science were compatible. She said she was excited at the prospect of being in Shrewsbury for next year's 200th anniversary celebrations of Charles Darwin's birth. The British scientist was born in the town on 12 February 1809.
