One reason I'm looking at foreign nationals as a part of the maintenance role is to get ahold of some of them both familiar with their own systems and with training foreign personnel on the maintenance requirements thereof. But I've got a potential maintence NCO supervisor who's going through a nasty divorce and wouldn't mind leaving CONUS for a half year or so, can wrench on anything from a lawnmower to an airliner and taught Harrier and Presidential Lift Flight maintenance...and is conversant in Russian and has worked with IL76 and L39 aircraft meckaniki.
We may have to consider him a Marine warrant officer equivalent rather than a motor officer per se, and accordingly call him *gunner* rather than *sir.* That'll work.
We thought this through a few months back as a possible mobile DOD OPFOR force that could travel to NG CITS sites and cause grief and consternation via realism in exercises. But this would certainly save on MILES equipment....