Originally Posted by Liberty

I’m a longtime military guy that went straight to SWA. It was definitely a whole different world. I don’t think any of this was hard but unfamiliar and I didn’t possess the battle rhythm for it. It took a few months to really get spun up. I like to think it would be the same situation for a life long civilian aviation guy. Give him a few months in the military world and he would catch on too. The only difference is the huge variety of mission sets vs 121 routine. I wouldn’t make a hiring decision based on one or the other. Also, The military is certainly not the same experience for everybody. Different branches, different airframe communities, different crew makeups, different missions, different complexities, different duty positions… declaring a guy as “military” is like referring to a guy as “white”. Not enough context to know anything about him. If you approach the transition with humility, as an opportunity to learn something different, you’ll catch up pretty quick. Let’s not act like this is super difficult.