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More than 1,400 trainees are graduating from the Air Force’s Basic Military Training on Thursday — all clad in face masks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. – Air Force officials announced beginning June 2, the service will continue to hold basic military training at a secondary location until the end of COVID-19 surge ...
U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training trainees carry weapons at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on August 2, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ava Leone) Ava Leone ...
Air Force recruits in their first week of Basic Military Training learn fundamental marching skills as an element of building discipline, teamwork and esprit de corps. BMT has been deemed mission ...
Every summer, the Air Force Academy brings in over 1,000 young men and women who will become future officers in the U.S. Air ...
“The docuseries is an unprecedented look into the Air Force’s only Basic Military Training at JBSA-Lackland,” according to a statement from Air Force Public Affairs.
Pain, punishment, push-ups: Air Force basic training is still a bear, but there's less screaming High-decibel verbal abuse was once a prime feature of Zero Week, the first stage of Air Force basic ...
Samantha Frank, Cape Central class of 2005, Graduated Air Force Basic Military Training on June 12th 2009 in San Antonio, Tx with "Honors" by writing a 96 out of a possible 100 on her final exam.
Air Force Basic Military Training officials do not plan on curtailing their newly expanded physical fitness program even though leaders at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, recently suspended ...
Two years ago, the Air Force was in a recruiting crisis, missing its goal for the first time since 1999. Easing rules on tattoos helped turn the tide.
The U.S. Air Force has expanded its Basic Military Training from seven-and-a-half weeks to eight-and-a-half weeks in an effort to align more closely with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ heightened ...
Air Force officials did not clarify if new recruits to the service — along with Space Force recruits, who also attend Air Force BMT at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland — would go through other ...