Dan McKinney is the director of the academy. He said training future officers and offering specialized classes for current ...

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 ...

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training is any airman’s first step into the massive world of the Air Force. From security forces to combat controllers, logisticians to mechanics, all airmen start their ...

Newly arrived trainees of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Battalion compete against another platoon in tug of war during the "First 100 yards" on October 21st, 2022 at Fort ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Generations of recruits at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center have marched from barracks to classroom, classroom to barracks, barracks to mess hall, more than a mile and a half a ...

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 ...

Army Pfc. Ryan P. Carey , a 2009 graduate of Walkersville High School, has completed basic combat training at Fort Jackson, in Columbia, S.C. During his nine weeks of training, Carey studied the ...

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 ...

Chloe G. Waham, whose parents live in Redmond and Kirkland, has entered Basic Cadet Training at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs. The training prepares men and women to meet the rigorous ...

A College Park native has graduated from the U.S. Army’s basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Army Pfc. Monique N. Millard completed nine weeks of training, studying the Army’s ...