Originally Posted by JohnBurke

I've flown with newly typed pilots with zero prior turbojet experience in various aircraft who performed flawlessly. None of them were high time.

The military has a nasty habit of putting very young, very inexperienced pilots in some of the most expensive and highest performance turbojet aircraft that the world has to offer, loading them down with more firepower than the sum total of the second world war, and sending them into combat. Somehow, they manage.