Goo and bad
There’s good and bad in both career civilian and ex military. The airline I work for has ex military in management and training and they are excellent. The airline before had ex military and they were some of the worst and incompetent individuals I have ever worked with.
I think is that when we are told by ex military (normally RAF) that they are the ‘elite’ and we as civilians will never fly to ‘their standard’, we just laugh. Especially when the evidence speaks otherwise. And stop telling everybody you are amazing leaders. It’s bollocks.
The excellent ex mil are the exception, not the rule.
And yes, there are lots of non ex military pilots out there who are also poor leaders, egotistcal and lacking in ability.
But as Zebbd says, when a group of mediocre with an ego ex mil try and tribalise an airline, it’s a general morale and commercial disaster.