The U.S. Air Force removed 23 recruits from boot camp last week after they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the Nov. 2 deadline, defense officials confirmed to Fox News.

Air Force will test a new boot camp location to fight COVID-19. By Kyle Rempfer ... The Air Force will now bring recruits in based on a four-week repeating cycle.

A trainee at Air Force boot camp has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, service officials announced Wednesday afternoon. The individual is the Air Force’s first trainee to test positive ...

NORFOLK, Va. — For the Air Force -- like all the branches -- the mission must go on, despite the coronavirus outbreak. The numbers among the troops are pretty staggering. The Department of ...

Military training instructors are responsible for training new recruits at the United States Air Force's 7 ½-week basic military training. But before they're certified to train new recruits in ...

Air Force basic training recruits that will be placed in a 14-day restriction of movement period arrive to in-process on March 24, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. (Sarayuth ...

Last year, the Air Force announced that it was getting rid of BEAST Week, the four-day deployed war exercise that had been a staple of the service's boot camp for the previous 16 years.

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'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.

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What makes this boot camp unique is it’s the first ever guardian-only basic training, led entirely by Space Force instructors who are teaching a space-centric curriculum.