No, they went for the job they loved and were spectacularly well trained for - despite the poor salary offered
Crab, I don't really understand your reply, you seem to be suggesting that they had to take up employment with Bristow? The alternative you mention is part and parcel of being in the armed forces and one of the reasons, in this case, why the salaries are higher. One of the issues here is the continual comparison between military salaries and commercial - the job is not the same and that is why the salaries are different.