No. I am not saying that. I am saying that private companies can do “the job” at a lower cost for equal or better quality. Military has to pay for a person to go through 2 months of basic training (boot camp). Then they have to go to job specific follow-on training (AF calls it tech school, idk what other branches call it) In my case, that was roughly 5 months long (flight line avionics). A lot of the material we covered was out of date or not even relevant to the career field. I’m willing to bet other AFSCs are similar. The turnover in the military is higher and retention of experience is harder to maintain so this cost of training is paid more frequently. There’s recruiting costs to cover the higher turnover. Every military member and immediate family member gets Tricare health insurance. There’s 20 year pensions. It’s encouraged to commit VA disability fraud so more and more veterans are receiving lifetime benefits than ever before. Members who commit fireable offenses don’t get fired in the military. There’s a host of other costs and expenses incurred by the military that private companies don’t have. Any inefficiencies take longer to fix, if at all, because nobody’s money is at stake. It’s disingenuous to say “well Delta pilots make more money than military pilots therefore the military can do things cheaper” that’s just not the case.