This. Someone from the civilian side has probably done one spin flight and 200 of those 500 hours in the traffic pattern at the local airport as a CFI in a 172. Someone on the C-17 on the military side has a lot more experience by 500 hrs via a training program an order of magnitude more involved than civilian training, and likely a lot of simulator time on top of that. (I came from the civilian side and this opinion has been formed by comparing my training to my buddies who were trained in the military.)