This trend of employers inventing reasons to disqualify your experience is really obnoxious.

Try getting out of the army and then seeing how employers treat you. I had more than one tell me I had “no office experience” despite working in an office for five years straight, eight hours a day. And working in an army office is a hell of a lot harder than working in any corporate office I’ve ever seen.

Employers make every effort to discount your experience because then they can pay you less (in general and in specific).