Originally Posted by PRS Guitars

This is inaccurate. You'll be in pilot training and other training your first 1.5 years. That will be about 220ish hours. Then if you fly fighters figure 150-200 a year after that. Trainers 250 to 500 a year, heavy's...more. If you go AD it won't really matter because you'll likely have the hours after your commitment is up.

I went 12 AD then switched to reserves. I wanted to be a reservist (and airline pilot) but after 911 decided that AD was a better choice than languishing in the RJ world for a decade, so my situation is different that yours.

I'm a UPT instructor, feel free to PM me, this would be a better conversation over the phone.