For decades, Air Force recruits went through basic training without any exposure to planes. Now, boot camp will revolve ...

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 ...

Like most any parent attending the Air Force basic training graduation here Jan. 27, Lori Huayacla had to navigate through the crowd in search of her son. But there was a difference for the ...

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training is continuing its transformation this year with the goal of becoming more realistic as officials plan to build two training ranges with mock runways and real ...

The new Air Force Basic Military Training commander has a unique perspective when it comes to leading the airmen in his group. According to archive research conducted by the 37th Training Wing Office ...

Wendy Gallardo Gallegos was marching with a backpack as part of Air Force Security Forces training when she twisted her right foot. It swelled up painfully, a nightmare scenario for an airman basic, ...

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 ...

Three-time Olympic athlete Anita Alvarez has earned herself a new title: airman. Alvarez graduated Air Force Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on Jan. 9 — one of 781 ...

FILE - Airman 1st Class D'elbrah Assamoi, from Cote D'Ivoire, signs her U.S. certificate of citizenship after the Basic Military Training Coin Ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in San ...