When asked about his first few days at boot camp as a recruit, Parra said with a chuckle, “My dad was an Army drill instructor, ... He left Greenland and returned to Lackland Air Force Base.

The Space Force now trains its new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, but wants to set up its own specialized basic military training program. (Daniel Cruz/U.S. Air Force ...

The Space Force now trains its new recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas, but wants to set up its own specialized basic military training program. (Daniel Cruz/U.S. Air Force) The ...

No further information about the proposal for Space Force’s boot camp was immediately available, an Air Force spokesperson said. As of December, the Space Force has 9,523 Guardians in the force.

Enlisted trainees for the Air Force and Space Force are now issued nonfunctional replicas of M4 rifles during boot camp at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

Airmen and guardian recruits are now carrying practice M4 rifles during boot camp at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, according to an Air Force release.. The program to have enlisted ...

U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training trainees carry weapons at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on August 2, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ava Leone) Ava Leone ...

When Kayla Killin graduated from basic military training at Lackland AFB in Texas the honor of tapping her out went to her 4-year-old brother, Quico.

Watch the video above to see an Air Force boot camp graduate tapped out by her baby brother Basic Military Training, also known as boot camp, lasts about seven weeks, so 4-year-old Quico was a ...

Insider spent five days at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, ... What new Air Force recruits go through in boot camp. Posted: 1 April 2024 | Last updated: 23 March 2025.

Lackland is the gateway for all Air Force trainees, producing about 36,000 graduates a year. About 7,200 In the cases of LeBlanc and Estacio, both women initially lied about the incidents to ...

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.