.....hope the RAF or RAAF or USAF was fun and that the training your received at the taxpayers expense is still up to the excellent standards we expect.
A little jealousy in your tone perhaps. Did you fail the RAAF selection?
Anyone leaving the military these days will have more than "paid back" the cost of their training! Some of my friends didn't live long enough to move on to civil aviation. And the bush flying/GA route has also claimed it's fair share of casualties along the way. No one has an easy ride to CX or any other airline.
Although I hate what the company has done to us with all this SLS BS, I can see that we're probably better off than the rest of his ex Air Force mates. Doesn't make it right.