Here is what you don't know and will never know.

What guarantees you an interview at the major of your choosing after only a year of PIC in your RJ?

What makes you different than any other regional captain with 1000 TPIC?

What networking opportunities will you gain from being in the ANG?

I've seen at least one student with decent quals (mostly King Air PIC) but lots more hours than yours who had his applications out there with the big 3 and UPS while at UPT. It was going to be an interesting conversation with his home unit, the UPT Wing/Squadron leadership, if he had actually gotten called for an interview while in pilot training, but that is a different discussion for another thread.

UPT will make you better, a better person, and a better aviator. It will give you opportunities like nothing else in the world.

You are young. Young enough to possibly get hired at a major and then go to UPT, if not selected by this unit for the next cycle of UPT slots.

Go For It!!! It can only help you.