The first recruits enter the newly constructed Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training (BEAST) course at Lackland AFB, Tex., for a week-long series of increasingly difficult activities in a simulated combat environment.
An important U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry AWACS command and control plane was among the aircraft damaged in a March 27 Iranian missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, people familiar with the matter told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
