None of the pilots flying AF447 had military flying backgrounds. In the past, airlines could rely on a supply of military trained pilots. Now, most of the commercial transport pilots have no military flying background. Although civilian trained pilots would argue that they have equally good training, I think that, if there is a difference, it's that the military training has a greater tendency to filter out people, who would "crack" under pressure, than civilian training. What good is a ball player, who knows everything about american football, if he drops the touchdown pass, when the game is on the line!
The greater flight safety we enjoy, due to technology, is offset by the fact that airlines don't want to filter out the pilots, who would drop the ball, because that would mean less pilots, so they'd need to increase pilot pay. Airline beancounters might claim that training is expensive, but adding a few curve balls and other assorted tricks to their training, to see how a pilot works under pressure, wouldn't be so expensive, but increasing pilot pay, because of the resulting shortage of pilots, would be in the eyes of soul-less accountants, and sociopathic airline executives. Apologies to the many terrific, civilian only trained pilots. I know there are some ex-military pilots who mess up too.