Air Force basic and technical trainees no longer have any alternative exercises available in the service’s fitness test, as ...

Air Force Basic Training takes place over eight and a half weeks -- here's a rundown of what you can expect. ... *Women are given a one-time cash allotment to buy undergarments.

The Air Force decided to keep basic training at the traditional 8-1/2 weeks and re-engineer the schedule. Mostly, Adelsen said, "we re-sequenced some of the training events to be more efficient." ...

Men have had to get their heads shaved during basic military training for decades -- so long that it's become almost a rite of passage (even though the original reason for doing it isn't as ...

SAN ANTONIO: The US Air Force said on Wednesday that one quarter of its basic training instructors will be women following widespread sexual harassment and abuse of female recruits at a Texas base ...

Basic training isn't the place for leisure. Personal grooming and even eating become timed, organized and regulated affairs.

U.S. Air Force Trainees from the 326th Training Wing low crawl during an obstacle course as part of the Primary Agile Combat Employment Range Forward Operations Readiness Generation Exercise, or ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force said on Saturday it selected a woman to serve as the new commander of basic training as the service wrestles with allegations that male instructors … ...

Col. Deborah Liddick took command Friday of the 737th training group at Lackland Air Force Base. Military investigators have identified more than 40 women at the Texas base who say they were ...

More than 35,000 recruits go through Air Force basic training at JBSA-Lackland every year. ... Members of WASP were the first women to fly American military aircraft.

Air Force basic military training has included mock deployments and combat scenarios since 1999, when the field training was known as “Warrior Week.” It was expanded and dubbed BEAST in 2006.

The U.S. Air Force is getting rid of "BEAST Week," a four-day simulated deployment that had been a staple of the service's basic military training for 16 years.