$$$4nothin
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All the stuff you commented about can easily be covered by briefing the new pilot prior to flying into ATL. What you failed to mention is that the military pilot will know what to do if they get into an inadvertent stick
shaker/pusher, unlike the typical regional pilot (Colgan).
Bottom line is that the typical military pilot is better trained than the typical regional pilot and whatever deficiencies the military guy has in regards to civilian ops can easily be taught to him in ground briefings, unlike the typical regional pilot who has basic deficiencies in airmanship.
So you are telling me a typical regional captain who has had 5-30 PC's won't know what to do when you get a stick shaker/pusher. Look we can both sit here and site a million different crashes. I can think of a former friend of the family who made some poor decisions in a B-52, but that doesn't make military pilots worse than RJ pilots and it likewise doesn't make them anybetter.
A military pilot is better trained to do what they are supposed to do, but you know as well as I do that ground breifings can't even come close to prepareing a pilot for all the stuff they have to deal with on the line. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Especially when that ground briefing is day 8 hour 6 of Idoc ground school. Or wait is the 20 year captain who just met him supposed to brief him on everything before the flight that is supposed to leave on time in 22 minutes.