Nice post Tam. Some people have no idea about military flying.
Flying circuits in an R22 and shuttling in a 225 is not quite the same as following, yet staying hidden, from a car full of explosives half way across a country, through various control zones and the middle of a city? Or sitting in the hover for 3 hours watching a back door? Or flying NOE on a 50:000 map and never getting lost (without GPS) etc, etc.
Instructing civilian ab-initio students is challenging in its own way and so is offshore shuttling but there is a reason that Police prefer pilots who have been taught certain skills and have honed them flown in various operational theatres.