If you had old style fixed wing military pilots the aircraft would never have been lost. All these aircraft need a magic switch that, when it is turned on, the aircraft turns into a basic stick handling machine.
I do not think this is a totally fair statement. Fortunately I have about have my time divided between military and civilian flying. I have seen gross muck ups on both sides. The military does seem to lack in imagination (as a very general rule so don't yell at me) and the civilians (Again as a very general rule so don't yell at me) sometimes lack in consistency in training.
It is our job as individuals as we mature is to see these faults in ourselves and fix them the best as we can. We need to take recurrent (even initial) courses ourselves from outside sources, try your hand at another type of flying (not as a job mind you but with a friend or just pay out of your own pocket. We should try to see outside of our ruts and think about what we see.