I would like to comment to the posting of Bealzebub, that here in Holland, where buying your type rating is invented, the military guys get their civilian education (Type Rating) funded by the Dutch governement.
The redundant Orion people were parked at Martinair and are payed by us (the Dutch tax payer), including me, a jobseeking civilian aviator.
I also would like to add that I am payed by the Dutch tax payer, to look for a job and support my family.
A portion of my tax goes in the typerating of these guys, but then again I get my unemployment benefits also from the Dutch governement.
A strange world we live in,
Cheers to all.