One of the instructors I work with is retired AF. Specifically C130 jockey and trainer. He wrote curriculum teaching pilots how to fly, then went to Lockheed and did same. He writes most of our curriculum and is exceptionally good at it. We collaborate on developing and in the end we have pretty darn good content. He can be a bit dry tho!
Sounds like me with Sikorskey they offered me 200K a year to work for them. No way in hell I was moving to Troy AL Did do some consulting with their techs though on leave. Oh my!