Don’t take flight lessons while a student there. I don’t think you are even allowed to while you’re in flight school (that’s how it was when I went thru years ago anyway). Could do a few lessons before you start in theory but at that point I would just focus on flight school.

If you do end up flying FW at Rucker, double bridges sucks. Don’t give them a cent. One of my buddies at Rucker is an Apache IP who has a plane and teaches on his time off. He’s hired a CFI or 2 to help him out bc he was stretched too thin. He’s the guy many were using to get ratings while there. Cheapest time/instruction around. Can’t vouch for his other CFIs, but I’ve flown in all sorts of stuff with that guy-he’s sharp. I also don’t know when he’s PCSing...he’s been there a while now. I heard another flight school was setting up shop in Ozark that was going to do add ons/RTP stuff. No idea if that panned out.

Note that you can’t do an add on until after you get your FAA RW commercial/inst, which you’ll get after you get wings and take the mil comp test. The add ons just lower hour requirements and removes a small number of the checkride requirements. So any flying you do between now and then is really just to help with a flying foundation. Makes the firehose a little more manageable. If you don’t plan on doing any for that reason, I’d just wait until you’re done with your RL progression, then hit the FW hard.