Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recruits sing the Air Force song during a basic training graduation at Lackland Air Force Base in April 2025. Lackland is the hub ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly arrived Air Force recruits get instructions from Tech. Sgt. Kaleb Schmidt, left, at San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base in ...

Air Force basic and technical trainees no longer have any alternative exercises available in the service’s fitness test, as only the three traditional events are now being used in the assessment for ...

The Air Force is changing the way it conducts Basic Military Training, replacing a four-day-long field training exercise with a new scenario that lasts 36 hours. In an announcement Wednesday, the ...

If you’ve ever wondered what separates Army recruits from Navy sailors, or why Marine drill instructors seem permanently powered by caffeine and righteous fury, you’re in luck. America’s armed forces ...

The U.S. Air Force is doing away with its "BEAST Week" training exercise in favor of a shorter version of the simulated deployment that will last only a day and a half. "If we get it right, it will be ...

Airman 1st Class Edren Jash Pena wore a big smile after graduating from Air Force basic training on Wednesday. He'd endured 7½ weeks of early morning wakeups, physical conditioning on the drill pad ...

Air Force Basic Military Training trainees work together during an aircraft training exercise involving an F-16 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The operational training is designed to put ...

Every year, 30,000 civilians arrive at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and leave 7½ weeks later as full-fledged U.S. Air Force airmen They rise early and spend their days marching, running and being ...

Six months after the Air Force launched a tougher, more combat-centric training program, airmen and prospective instructors are clamoring to get involved.

In a case with echoes of a sexual abuse scandal that rocked Lackland Air Force Base a decade and a half ago, an Air Force basic training instructor pleaded guilty Thursday to having prohibited sexual ...