Nothing answered and some shitty drama, dropping this until it's complete, not gonna waste my time on something where they don't even try to explain what the fuck happened in the last years.
I also lold when he had problems with the TSF because it's oversensitive, well since he is an american it is also a pun made on the american people in this show I suppose. Americans are rough, rowdy and prideful people, Japanese are refined, agile and put a lot of focus on their traditional traits. Considering a trainee can easily ride that TSF and a "pro" American can't is exactly the stereotype going on around the world about the americans.
This really made me lol, also on the battlefield during the mock battle they had to cover him and defend him, this is exactly the same thing going on about Americans, if they can't control or handle their weapon or it breaks, they completely lose the will to fight. This was especially proved during the Vietnam Conflict, when USA soldiers were given the new M-16 sweet called by the American army as "Matell". Reason for that was because it broke easily, jammed and was unusable in jungle conditions, many soldiers were found dead laying next to their broken weapon, because american soldiers didn't know what to do. Unless they could get a new weapon or steal a weapon from enemy they would just drop where they stood and wait for their deaths.
The Lt. is correct about him, he may have talent riding an american machine, but he is completely useless otherwise, his american pride gets hurt so easily because he really is useless. That's one of the reasons for me to drop this until the series is complete, this guy has no will to improve himself, he will blame everything and everyone except himself for his lack of any ability to do anything outside of his military training. He blames the machine for being overly sensitive without realizing that it's him being too rough.
I hope he dies later on, cuz he's a totally useless ass.