Which would you recommend if you wanted the most deployments, Guard or Active Duty?
In recent history the active units are deploying a lot more frequently then the Guard or Reserve Units. As a Rescue Squadron PJ you will deploy almost once a year or every 18 months with an entire team, in the STS side of it, it will be less often. In the Guard or Reserve there are opportunities to deploy, but more often then not you are not deploying as a team.
I've heard that if you want to do the job of a PJ you should go Air National Guard.
If you want to train to do the job, I would go active duty.