While I'm 'on a roll' ...................
(that's real QFIs, not just AEF pilots given a laying-on of hands)
Most of these
'just AEF pilots given a laying on of hands' have a huge amount of experience in flying training. Some of them are only recently 'out of the real system'. Some of them have more instructional experience - in between their 'real' jobs - than can even be imagined by the 'military QFIs' that you laud (a lot of whom are and were first tour B2s then B1s). A lot of the AEF 'QFIs' are ex-A1s and that is a skill and talent that is not easily lost, just as it isn't easily gained by the first tour B2s!