Cessnapete,
I appreciate that you have 15k hrs of "world wide heavy jet flying experience (not all bucket and spade)". How much of that was in the military world? Any of it since 2003? Genuine questions.
It just seems to me (non aircrew just in case you don't know) that you're trying to set one set of values (from the civilian world) onto another area that you may or may not have experience of. I deliberately ask 'since 2003' as the wars we have and are fighting over the last few years have little in common with the cold war.