"I hear this constantly but want to know specifically what US Air Force students get access to that makes them gods among."

They (military) are not gods. The reason they can fly like they do with few hours have multiple reasons:

1. To start with, they medically disqualify many people, so physically they are better, on average.

2. You have to graduate HS with decent grades, and get into a university (for fixed wing), for them to even Consider testing you. If you get to test, then take only the very top few percent of this allows to test. An average guy has no hope of scoring high enough on the test to even be considered.

3. The military spends WAY more money...Better equipment, better trained instructors, better training infrastructure, better ground training....then the civilians do.

4. The training itself is MUCH more demanding...they expect they're mil students to study more and learn more, in greater detail, than a flash civilian place.

The problem with mil training is they can't train enough pilots with their system to satisfy the U.S.needs, much less the test I'd the shelf.