OK ... so you just graduated from AFA or AFROTC! Congratulations! Youve just been commissioned a 1LT, and you’re about 21 years old.
18 months of flight training? That makes you about 23 years old.
We’re talking about 26 year olds ... just about the right age to be flying a military aircraft for any of the services that have aircraft. That would be everybody except Space Force. And old enough to be getting pretty good at it.
I’m not sure what your point is, if any ... and the incident we’re talking about here occurred during the Korean WAR ... so also not sure why you’re going on about WWII.
Then let me try to simplify if for you. World War 2 or the Korean war, it doesn't matter. Today's fighter pilots have years of education and training before combat missions as compared to to the non education requirement and only months of training for the WW-II and Korean kids who flew combat missions.
There is no comparison between today's pilots and those of the Korean and WW-2.
Does that help?