Mind you though, apart from the troll crowing, what's the difference between someone cruising into an airline job as a divine right on someone else's money and an air force pilot, all of whose training has been at the expense of the public purse, doing the same thing?
Maybe something to do with getting shot at, having friends killed, living in some pretty awful conditions whilst working under crew duty regs that make the civilian world complaints about EASA regs making you look like a bunch of princesses.
3500 hours military and I've earned every one of them.