What is it like begin an MTI? A Day In The Life of a Military Training Instructor, 331st, 2015 DSD

A closer look at the missions accomplished on a typical day for an Air Force Basic Military Training Instructor with the 331st Training Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.


(Music)
I produce world class Airmen, that’s how my job contributes to the Air Force Mission.
(MTI Providing Instructions)
(Narrator) Thus begins the day in the life of Tech Sergeant (E6) of Edroy Robinson, Air Force Military Training Instructor (MTI).
(MTI Providing Instructions)

He and his fellow training instructors are stern, authoritative, and intimidating figures. They lead new trainees through a grueling and exhausting first day of Air Force basic training.

(MTI Providing Instructions)

As an MTI (Military Training Instructor) for the three-thirty-first (331st) training squadron Sergeant Robinson is the sole arbiter whether or not the trainees in his flight have what it takes to be world class. He takes emence pride in the responsibility.

(TSgt Robinson)
They see as their example of what the Air Force should be. I want to make sure I am giving them the right example. I am leading by example, I am giving them that excellence they should have, showing them what intgrity should be.

(MTI Providing Instructions)

Yes it’s a lot of training a lot of drill involved. But at the end of the day we’re still supervising these young men and women coming into the Air Force.

(Narrator)
It’s an M-T-I’s responsibility to teach trainees that there are rules to follow for every situation they’ll find them selfs in as Airman. Including one of the most innocuous of all, breakfast.

(MTI Providing Instructions)

I use what I’ve been taught at M-T-I-S, Military Training Instructor School, I use what I was taught during my training process for my technical qualification, and I use my experience as a prior N-C-O (non-commissioned officer).

Then I take that and once I got their attention I’ll also share with them some of my stories or my past expertises. So I can reach them on that level and hey even though I am yelling in your face and we’re marching around, you can still be who you are you can still be a person but you’ll be better as an Airman if you actually understand the reason why we are doing what we are doing to you.

(Narrator)
After breakfast MTIs reform their flight, give them lessons in military deportment, and marching. All in preperation to be marched to their first official appointment as trainees, Military Pay. Later it’s a visit to the barber the unofficial transition from civilian to Airman, and finally clothing issue. Trainees are fitted with all the military clothing items they’ll need to sustain them through their basic training experience.
They may look like Airmen but the MTIs work has only just begun.

What’s left of a typical day for a Military Training Instructor is devoted to lunch, additional training, the trainees first visit to the exchange, more marching, culminating with dinner at the dinning facility.

Service before self, integrity and excellence all Air Force Core Values. All part of each day in the life of an MTI.

(TSgt Robinson)
Our product as Military Training Instructors are the Airmen. At the same time train and mold them to be the future we still have to be the idea Airmen for them.

(Narrator)
Military Training Instructors will mold each airman on getting them to the path of success to the Air Force. Trainees searching for the bench mark for what it takes to become a world class Airman need look no further than the person under the wide brimmed hat.

From the five-O-second (502d) Air Base Wing Public Affairs office I am Tony Hearst.


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