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 ...

Airmen will have to wait even longer than expected to purchase their new Air Force physical training uniforms on base, after patiently anticipating the new clothes since 2022. In April, future airmen ...

I have always advocated for a more rigorous physical training program for Air Force basic training. For military members, physical fitness should be the cornerstone of our tenure. Study after study ...

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 Airman 1st Class William L. Martens graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included ...

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 ...

Service in the United States Air Force (USAF) is inherently based on a structured professional life that starts from the very ...

Air Force Airman Mikalen J. Tillmon graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Tillmon completed an intensive eight-week program that included training in ...

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 Air Force has pulled, and is reviewing, a course from its basic military training curriculum that includes videos on the elite, all-Black Tuskegee Airmen pilots. (Air Force) The Air Force has ...