In the military, part of the brainwashing and reprogramming involves getting into the heads of personal, that they are the best of the best. If you go to war, with the mindset you aren't the best of the best, you are a looser!!
The case in question may be a carry over of this indoctrination and a dollop dollop of a sense of entitlement
Military agreesion and the above attitude has no place in civil aviation.