HAGERSTOWN, Md. (DC News Now) -- It was all caps and gowns in Hagerstown on Tuesday, a celebration for families and friends of graduates in the aviation mechanics program at the Pittsburgh Institute for Aeronautics.

The graduates are going into a field in high demand.

Boeing Aircraft estimates it will hire 123,000 mechanics and aviation specialists over the next 20 years, in an industry, labor forecasters said will be faced with worker shortages at airlines nationwide.

Graduate Jacob Phillips enrolled in the Pittsburgh Institute for Aeronautics right after serving in the Marine Corps.

"They teach you everything you need to know to be prepared for the industry," Phillips said. "I'm a military guy coming out of the military, doing a big transition. The training takes anybody from ground

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