BEAST Week, which stands for Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training, was an important part of the Air Force's initial entry training for 16 years. The training was a four-day-long deployed war ...

Since 1999, the Air Force’s basic training included a combat-oriented, capstone field training event. In 2006, the former “Warrior Week” underwent a major redesign into the four-day BEAST ...

The Air Force announced Wednesday that 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 ...

While the Air Force has marketed “The Beast” as basic training’s “most intense” week, promising “field training and … combat scenarios with fellow trainees at your side,” Robinson ...

Air Force basic military training has included mock deployments and combat scenarios since 1999, when the field training was known as “Warrior Week.” It was expanded and dubbed BEAST in 2006.

The first Air Force basic training started with the Army ... you’ll have to join the Army or the U.S. Marine Corps. Week 6, formerly called “The Beast,” is now Pacer Forge.

“Have a great Air Force day!” “We’re allowed to be nice to them up until they step on the bus,” said Afman, who will assist in basic training. “It all changes when they step on the bus.

What hasn’t changed about Zero Week? Trainees still learn the Air Force’s core values ... It used to be called Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training, or BEAST. It’s been retooled ...

More than 35,000 recruits go through Air Force basic training at JBSA-Lackland every year. The 7½-week regimen of weapons training, calisthenics and classroom learning has long included ...

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