Well put, although there will always be people lining up to do this job for free or worse pay to do it thanks to the false advertising by pilot factories.

These posts prove that military training is second to none but they sometimes fail to produce pilots with personalities one likes to fly with. Arrogance is actually encouraged in the military to help pilots cope with ones fear and a sense of mortality but once out of the military, it's hard for them to become well, humble, it seems.

These so called experts, including the subject of this original thread, if anyone care to remember at this point, have done their job by perpetuating the false premise that all airline pilots should come from the ranks of the military. A good pilot can come from any background. He or she can be a former cropduster, military, CFI, an artist, a musician or a school teacher. Some of the best pilots I have ever flown with came from very diverse background but they all shared a common trait, that is, a love of flying and a certain knowledge of their shortcomings.