When I see internal postings now, they still have essential elements and experience, and they still say “or relevant military experience”. But how would you take relevant military experience, say, in Kandahar or Sarajevo, and apply that when they want knowledge of databases specific to the employment or specific knowledge of legislative authorities and enforcement domestically? You obviously can't have that experience unless you've already been in that job or gone to school for that job. You may have other experience enforcing other types of legislative authorities internationally—narcotics or something in Panjwai, Kandahar—but you don't have it domestically.
I don't know if they do it deliberately as a barrier. It definitely seems it's a barrier—taking what you've done and making it fit through this, even if it's just a filter, to apply on a government web page, and if it doesn't get through the filters for the keywords....