How can we get the civilian market to recognize military certifications?

There's no real solution. If HR can't quantify the data, it doesn't count. They have a list of acceptable certs for the position, and if your cert doesn't fall into that list (even if it's complete on par with something on the list), the checklist monkey has no ability nor desire to critically assess that. Or worse, the program that they feed the batches of application into, to weed out the "weak" ones, will file it into the bit bucket. You are not a cog that fits properly into the machine.

Best thing you can do, as stated, is focus on your wording. My application that eventually landed me my current position (the third one I'd submitted to my facility) was laden with KSA equivalencies. I had 5000 characters per work experience, and I used every bit of that to come up with a roughly 13 page resume. I had a tentative offer in two days after my interview. Of course, since it's a federal position, my >30% 10 point vet pref probably was a deciding factor there, more than my overly wordy USAJobs app...

The solution is to align military training requirements to civilian requirements for the job the big problem is that many certs don't go from one state to anther so there is no way that the military can meet every states requirements. That and we don't care about civilian cets look at 88m they don't need a CDL to do there job so they don't get one to do it on the outside you need a CDL.

They must be certifications that are on their level...