Once again, as has been highlighted ad nauseam already on APC, ART is a huge paycut to do a regAF job until 57-60, both on the income and retirement fronts. AGR is much better, but does not facilitate the transition to the airlines due to risk of non-curtailment. Bumming is cyclic and the least steady of the three, but offers the most scheduling flexibility.
ARTs generally end up being those guys who aren't interested or can't get hired at the airlines. Otherwise, people use ART jobs as revolving doors to transition to airline work, or as bunker jobs during periods of airline furlough. The OP can't go wrong with either choice in this hiring environment. Only the AGR would be ill-advised for him at this juncture in his career. Don't hang your hat on anything though, things change quickly in this business, military included.
As to AFRC, yeah they've lost their minds a while ago down there in Robins. Absolutely no fidelity with what's going on at the unit-level it seems. They're taking their cues from Pentagon "liaisons" fielding phone calls to airline management. They're clueless. I'm loving the pyrotechnics right now. This thing is burning and even the regAF loaner furniture is catching on fire. That TFI I tell ya, sure isn't popular amongst the plebes. LOL