"You're military - you don't know about modern technology".
That is heard when the entire shop is full of EE and ME grads, who assume that only ME and EE grads can do the job. I've seen it happen with our local power company, who resisted hiring a Navy vet who had gained his experience on nuclear subs. BTW, the guy is now the head of his dept.
This is like IT depts that require a BA or BS. I usually write them and ask if they'd turn down Bill Gates or Micheal Dell or Steve Jobs or... (you get the idea). When they respond they simply say that the college degree is "company policy" as if that liberates them from critical thinking.
I imagine these days you can get a BS and never have to even code a binary sort.
Similarly the govt requires a license to touch an air conditioning system, work on plumbing, or wire a house. These are all pretty basic tasks to do safely and properly (having build my houses I know) yet the state insists that you work as an apprentice for SEVEN years before you're allowed to be paid for this type of work. It shuts me out, with an engineering degree, from doing basic types of work where I could do very well on my own - especially if I wanted to leave the engineering field and work small jobs here and there.