I think Judge11 was referring to the actual phrasing. To say that a military trained pilot has not reached the required standards when he has already passed their lame online aptitude tests is laughable. That is not arrogant, as a mil pilot he will have already passed a far more gruelling selection process and flying training system than any civvy pilot. That's not arrogance it's the truth.
What they meant to say was "we have only a few positions for ex military pilots and we have had to make an unforeseen cut in numbers as so many of you passed our aptitude tests."