The first week of Air Force boot camp will emphasize stress management, physical fitness and cleanliness.

Keeping airmen and Guardians in the service and making sure they make it through basic military training has become a top priority for the Department of the Air Force.

The Air Force hopes its recruits will eventually carry real rifles in boot camp, its top enlisted airman said. It recently restarted issuing practice M4 carbines to recruits for their eight-week ...

Air Force officials also decided to take the resilience training curriculum that had been layered through 7½ weeks of boot camp and put it into the first five days at Lackland.

The Air Force announced it is getting rid of BEAST week during Basic Military Training, the four-day-long deployed war exercise that has been a staple of the service's boot camp for the last 16 years.

Recruits joining the Air Force and Space Force will now be issued an inert M4 carbine early in boot camp and carry it throughout basic training.

(Daniel Cruz/U.S. Air Force) The Space Force wants to set up its own tailor-made boot camp for aspiring guardians, top officials said at a Florida conference this week.