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As Spitoon says - mil licences are not regarded as being equal to civil licences, and vice versa (at least in the UK).
I am a civvy controller now, I was a Mil controller with endorsements in TWR, GND, SUP, TALKDOWN, APP (RA) and APP (PROC), DIR, LARS, OJTI and LEO. The only recognition my previous experience got me was to be allowed to apply over the normal age limit (I am purely talking NATS here).
I think NATS should lighten up a little and allow MIL controllers (who are still current) to by pass the aptitude tests etc and only have to sit the personnel interview and the medical.
I do believe that apart from the groundschool subjects which Mil controllers are given exemption from, Ex Mil controllers should attend the college - civil and mil controlling are different.
It would be nice if it was possible for an Ex Mil to go straight to a unit to train and miss out the college, but the amount of extra training the OJTIs would have to do to civilianise the Mil controller would be too much to do, bearing in mind the lack of resources at units as it stands.