CORPUS CHRISTI
Army Depot test pilots
Dominque Benitez and
Matt Garza check the
No. 1 engine on a UH60
Black Hawk before
flight test.
PHOTO BY KIANA ALLEN
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The aim: to produce
more holistic technicians,
maintainers capable of better
troubleshooting problems
By Jerome Greer Chandler
"SIXTEEN YEARS OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON
Terrorism has really eroded our ability … to
maintain our helicopters," says a man in position
to know. Gregory M. Chambers is the Command
Sergeant Major (CSM) of the Aviation Branch at the
United States Army's Aviation Center of Excellence
at Fort Rucker, Alabama. In conjunction with col-
leagues at the 128th Aviation Brigade at Joint Base
Langley-Eustis in Virginia he helps fashion the
nuts and bolts of maintenance training for Army
maintainers.
Just now CSM Chambers is in the process of
helping put the finishing touches on a program
aimed at fundamentally changing the way rotary