Cradling dummy rifles, Airman Basic Agustina Arguello Andrade and four other recruits crawled along a steep incline, taking deep breaths at an agonizingly slow pace, like big turtles on a sandy beach.

Airmen and Guardians will once again carry practice weapons during their nearly eight weeks of basic military training, a change that Department of the Air Force officials say is needed amid rising ...

The U.S. Air Force has finally slain the BEAST. After 16 years, Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training will be retired, as the service changes the way it prepares recruits for combat. The once ...

LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas — For a service usually stationed so far from the front lines that it has earned the sobriquet “Chair Force,” some of the scenes now unfolding at the Air Force’s primary ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (Nov. 25, 2020) -- Three teams of soldiers of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Joint Regional Correctional Facility, participated in the Best Watchdog Competition as a ...

The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

Wiser completes basic trainingU.S. Navy Seaman <span class="SM_boldwords">Tyler Wiser</span>, son of Tracey L. Wiser and stepson of April L. Arford of Chesapeake ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — More than 40 feet up the tower at Fort Jackson, Army recruit Robert Smith missed setting his feet on the 4-by-4 plank from which he was to start rappelling down. “I said: ...

Shipley graduates Air Force Airman Damien L. Shipley graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that ...

The following people graduated from basic training in the military. Lonadier completes Navy training Navy Seaman Recruit Scott A. Lonadier, son of Katrina and Scott A. Lonadier of Valparaiso, recently ...