Welcome to the Chow Board, also known as the Snake Pit. During Air Force basic training at Lackland, mealtime is not a respite. It's part of a relentless process of discipline and indoctrination ...

A reader praises the U.S. military as the best and most powerful, but laments that too many personnel are unfit, overweight ...

The "Breaking Barriers" video celebrating the all-Black fighter group had been under review to see if it complied with ...

Before they join the United States Air Force or Space Force, all trainees must graduate from the Air Force's 7.5-week basic military training ... happens here, at Lackland Air Force Base, located ...

During the first week of training called Zero Week, Air Force basic military training introduces trainees to "Airmindedness," a fundamental lesson ...

Lackland is where all Air Force recruits go through BMT — basic military training. Much of the Human Performance Squadron's work centers on teaching recruits how to run, and how not to.

Black and all-women flyers were cut from Air Force basic training after a Trump order ending diversity training.

Jeffrey W. Pixley, the commander of the 737th Training Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland who oversees all basic military training at the installation. "When they go back to visit where they ...