But don't BEngOs still get some time to get their hands oily during work experience time away from their academic courses?
JEngOs used to do all the academics first, then hit the squadrons knowing all the theory but none of the practice - I thought their course was then changed into a sandwich course, with the jam in the middle being practical hands-on time?
SEngOs leading? Well, a couple I knew of 2 who certainly united the squadron oilies..... Perhaps not in the way they would have liked. One was an autocratic fool with the man management skills of Attilla the Hun, the other a bumbling idiot who hid behind a wall of paperwork.