The Air Force's top enlisted leader said there's a desire to let trainees at the service's boot camp carry real rifles, a change that would mirror long-standing norms for other military branches. Last ...

Editor's note: A version of this story was initially published in 2015. Millions of men and women across the country have started careers as fresh-faced recruits in basic military training (BMT) on ...

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 ...

Wendy Gallardo Gallegos was marching with a backpack as part of Air Force Security Forces training when she twisted her right foot. It swelled up painfully, a nightmare scenario for an airman basic, ...

U.S. Air Force Airmen Isaac A. Bullock, Jack M. Christopher, Kendall A. Ives and Brian M. Plouffe and Air National Guard Airman Grant M. Caine graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San ...