well I've long since retired from military flying but this talk about the competance of low time military aviatiors vis a vis civilian pilots got me thinking about my own early days out of military flight school and the scrapes I got into and survived because god protects fools and beginners. With all of our great training I lost a number of acquaintances not so lucky who died in military crashes that didn't garner a lot of attention because each crash didn't have a couple of hundred dead civilian passengers added to the mix.
The point I'm making is that in the military flight community experienced aviators tried to watch out for us low time guys because we were low time guys, military flight training notwithstanding. IMHO there is no substitute for experience.