Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to bring back an older, rougher kind of basic training where drill sergeants "instill ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 recruit walked briskly up to Tech. Sgt. Bradley Middleton and pivoted to face him. To the untrained eye, nothing seemed out of place. But it was all wrong. The young airman-in-training was ...

Air Force Airman Brian J. Bozarth graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. He is the son of Stephanie Bozarth of Auburn. Bozarth is a 2008 graduate of ...

Air Force Airman Sarah M. Shoemaker graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. She is the daughter of Justin and Pamela Hunt of Puyallup and is a 2009 ...

The graduation ceremony marked the first time trainees were authorized to wear the service dress uniform instead of ...