Update,
Thanks to many of you for your posts and opinions. I did the mil comp and I now have in hand my CFII for SEL. I was a NATOPS evaluator in the E-2, but since I wasn't a designated instructor pilot they wouldn't sign off on the multi-engine for the CFII (I do have it on my commercial ticket). So...afterwords I talk to the chief pilot at the flight school where I took my test and he said I might get hired, but that I first would have to spend 10 hours in the air learning how to instruct and another 10 hours of ground school to get a handle on teaching "civilian". Of course that would all be at the rate of $50/hour.....hhmmmm I'm not trying to brag but I have 7 years experience instructing mil pilots and over 3k hours total (including about 100 hours of civilian multi-time)...I would think that a few familiarization hops and an hour or two in a ground school gouge session would be sufficient....should I keep "shopping" around for another CFI gig, or should I plunk down the cash and the 20 hours to get "current" as a C-172 instructor with this school?
As a side note, I am studying now for the ATP, does anyone know a "gouge" ATP evaluator in the SOCAL area?
Thanks again and remember, "pickle...pause...pull"!!