The Air Force has restructured its tech schools to ensure new service members don’t forget that they are Airmen first despite their specialty—the primary lesson of the service’s recent transformation of basic military training.
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The Air Force wants to move its enlisted education system beyond classrooms and PowerPoint slides, but first it must implement what many civilian schools take for granted: free, campus-wide wireless internet access for students.
New trainees will graduate Basic Military Training in seven weeks instead of eight and a half, as the Air Force looks to mitigate the coronavirus outbreak. The temporary move is intended to “enhance social-distancing requirements” at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, according to an Air ...