Somebody clearly failed Air Force selection
Sorry to burst your bubble but "somebody" never tried it. "Somebody" has however been in this game over 20 years and has seen many instances of ex service types getting a head start on all of us poor saps simply because they were buggered by Badger in the mess in 1986 or they used to fly with Squiffy Fart-Blenkinsop back in the day. No great surprise really, people do stick with their own, just good old fashioned tribalism as we see every day in most forms of human endeavour.
With the benefit of hindsight I probably would have had a far easier time in this game if I had been in the services but there you go, I chose my path many years ago for better or worse.