Originally Posted by
waldo135
OK, I'll bite. I start Indoc soon and am a newly retired mil pilot. I have zero 121 (or any other civil) experience. I DO, however, have extensive experience crossing the ocean (all of them) with ACARS and CPDLC. I have flown into the busiest airports in the world and to every continent except Antartica. I find it very condescending when people assume that just because someone is a 'newhire' or a military pilot just entering the commercial world that they are somehow inept or dangerous.
There is less new stuff for 121 guys to learn so the transition is probably a little easier but military guys generally have the aptitude to get up to speed quickly. After a few months you'd be hard pressed to tell what someone's background is.
Delta might have the most mature screening and training program in the world. Anyone who makes it to the line is qualified to do the job. New hires to the ER is no less safe than new hires to the MD-88 no matter where they came from.