Well I hope military pilots are better!!!!! I spent 50K on helicopter conversion courses for a Commercial and Instrument rotorcraft helicopter a few years ago. I heard the Navy spends about $500K to train their helo guys. So they better be better by a factor of 10.
I did my FW training all the way through Comm. Inst, & ME for $10,000 bucks. The price at the time of a new Lincoln Continental. What does it cost nowadays to train a military pilot?
I was a CFI at age 20 and instructing doctors and lawyers What are military guys doing at age 20? Panty raids on campus?
BTW - way back when I was a Lear SIC we hired an retired SAC pilot. He was flying our Lears at 45.0 even though they were certified to only 41.0 (old tired ones). The CP was going to give him a second chance but the guy called the CEO (we where a division of a publicly traded company) and the CEO thought he had "mental" problems and canned him. I’m sure there’s countless stories were civy guys messed up too.
It's better to drop this, "who is better arguement" as it's a waste of time.