A military controller probably isn’t ready for rush hour at Kennedy, but the failure rate would have to be lower. The other sad part of this is blowing off kids that completed specific ATC courses of study at colleges and then are told they don’t meet the desired diversity criteria. The college programs emerged specifically to deal with this expected shortage and now those kids are finding out they wasted their time and money. I won’t even go into the malfeasance on the part of FAA officials gaming the system for candidates that are their preferred color.
No, a military controller can’t walk into the tower at Kennedy and go to work, But he CAN go through the very same training those Kennedy controllers all went through, and end up a very good addition to the team there.
But thanks to diversity and affirmative action requirements, they do not get a fair chance. Sad, they are well experienced and can bring a lot to the ATC Academy.