And of course, special snowflake pilots are frankly the least of Defence's worries. Why on earth should you get massively better t&c than the rest of us?
Despite your rather inflammatory language I do agree, all branches & trades are subject to declining employment standards, & re numeration under NEM. It's no good having aircraft without the pilots to fly them nor the engineers to maintain them. All of our jobs are to put the aircraft in the sky to enable its task.
Not sure what a 'special snowflake pilot' is though.....