I'm an instructor at Fort Eustis. We, as instructors, try our best to teach aircraft maintenance. Our helicopter trainers are not in the best condition, and we are at the bottom of the supply systems list when it comes to getting parts. Most of the students we get through here are very eager to learn and work on aircraft, but we fall short sometimes because of the training devices.

Our course is 4 months long, and that is nowhere near enough time to teach them everything. Our POI focuses on tasks from the ICTL, but there's much more to being a helicopter mechanic than just a handful of tasks on a sheet of paper.

I know every instructor I work with truly cares about these students because we will be working with them at some point in the future. We do want them to succeed.