Exploring how each U.S. military branch uniquely shapes recruits through distinct, challenging basic training experiences.

Almost exactly 6 years after the Space Force was founded, a basic training class made history as the first to march in the traditional boot camp graduation ceremony wearing the service’s own, ...

The Air Force has lengthened the capstone event that all recruits face at the end of basic training to make sure that airmen sweat in training so they don’t bleed in war. The first boot camp class to ...

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 ...

Air Force Basic Military Training trainees carry practice weapons at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, on August 2, 2024. (Ava Leone/Air Force) Airmen and guardian recruits are now carrying ...

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’s newest airmen are spending a lot more time with weapons than their predecessors have for more than a decade. Since the end of July, airmen and guardian trainees have been carrying ...

The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War II pilots who were vital in ferrying ...

The Air Force has removed training courses featuring videos of the Tuskegee Airmen and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) to comply with the Trump administration's directives on diversity, equity, ...