Military pilots also get screened for aptitude, intelligence, education, health, fitness, and motivation before they attend training. It's also pretty competetive, ie there are more people who actually meet the mins than there are jobs available.

Civilian screening is just an FAA third class medical and a credit check. Civilian training is essentially all the same...if you pay a larger amount of money it doesn't get you much in the end but larger loan payments. Foriegn operators who put 200 hour pilots in 737's have a brutal screening and training process...the license written tests are graduate level, and I think there are FOURTEEN of them . needless to say it's pretty competetive also.