You are talking bollo**s.
Might have to disagree with you there TC. I would agree that certain types of flying such as Police work relate quite well to previous military experience but firefighting certainly does not.
Take any pilot straight out of a highly regulated miltary system with only two pilot helicopter experience and put that pilot into a new civil single pilot type with bare minimum training then send that pilot out to flight fires and you are asking for trouble. It is highly specialised work and is fraught with traps for the unwary.
This is exacerbated by the Spanish system which anyone who has worked there knows only too well. Hueyracer knows what he is talking about.