But normally you are dealing with a know quantity when hiring a military pilot. Because of their screening and training, it is pretty much a uniform product. Out of approximately 100 military hires in the last 12 years, if have had one training failure. Out of around 225 civil only hires we have had 27 training failures. So yes many civil pilots are equal or better than military pilots, it just you sometimes don't know what you are getting when hiring a civilian.
True about the failures, but by the time the military guys get to a certain level, the sub-par pilots have flunked out, right?