Some of us military types get our undies in a wad when someone with civilian time comes across thinking it may help him/her in UPT, even though it most likely will, you just can't act like it will.

I agree with what rickair7777 says above. When and if you get to UPT, just don't talk about your prior flight time much. You don't have to lie, but just avoid it like the plague. It will definitely help you as long as you're willing to learn more (much more). Whether the Air Force (your AF IP's at UPT that is) give a crap or not about your prior time and they probably won't, I garauntee it'll help you stick and rudder wise, instrument wise, overall airmanship wise, SA wise, etc... than the guy/gal coming in with their 40 hours of IFT/PPL that never flew a day in their life before hand. There were 4 guys in my class with about 4000 civilian hours combined (all CFII/MEI's) and were ranked 1, 2, 3 and 4 upon track select. Not a coincidence and all the other prior time students I knew at the time all did well also.

I would advise against active duty also. As someone said above, it's not just a flying job and depending on what airframe you end up getting, you may only fly a few times a month. Go Guard if you like to fly. It'll allow you to seek commercial flying opportunities also.