It's funny, in the outside world years of experience and skill are rewarded with higher pay and opportunity. In the military you are channeled into a desk job at the peak of your proficiency by our up-or-out system. We have Canadian exchange pilots that fly with us who are given the choice of command or operational track. They may hit a promotion pay and ceiling at some point, but we don't have many 10,000 hour majors on active duty either. They are just plain good!