military jet with an engine failure is a completly different scenario which is not worth discussing here
I was thinking more along the lines of a military turboprop, such as a Tucano, which will carry about the same amount of energy into a field. Is it military practice to dead stick land these into fields if the engine quit or are their SOPs to bail out? Also the grobs they use - I seem to remember reading that in the event of an EF at altitude, that the aircraft would be abandoned.
Anyway, I wasn't there so can't comment on the rights or wrongs of what the pilot did. I may have pulled the chute, or I may have opted for an off airport landing. I know in my plane I'd opt for the second, only because we don't have the option of a chute.