Royal Saudi air force Airman Samer Alqurashi, right, talks to RSAF Senior Country Liaison Officer Col. Bader M. Alotaibi about the flight controls and instruments of an F-15 at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, May 18, 2018. Alotaibi has overseen the RSAF delegation of students and other personnel at Sheppard since July 2016. The attrition rate of aircraft maintenance students such as Alqurashi has dropped from about 50 percent to less than 2 percent under Alotaibi's leadership. (U.S. Air Force photo by John Ingle)