| Air force boot camps are basic military training | | | | before breakfast. Then again exercise after breakfast |
| courses for air force recruits that are conducted at | | | | until lunch. And so the process continues. The whole |
| Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. Here | | | | day is made up of exercises, with a lot of mental |
| the trainees are instructed in discipline, ethics, | | | | pressure thrown in.Trainees are also given instructions |
| courtesies, dress code, drills, physical fitness, use of | | | | about flight practice, pilot controls and more. Trainees |
| equipment and survival tactics in warfare. It extends | | | | are also instructed on what to do when there are |
| for a period of six weeks and the last week is called | | | | life-threatening situations in midair. There are |
| as the Warrior Week, which involves combat | | | | confidence building courses, and courses that teach |
| training.Air force boot camps are supposed to be less | | | | about teamwork.In these times of war, it is estimated |
| physically strenuous than the military and the marine | | | | that about 85 percent of the air force trainees will be |
| boot camps. In these boot camps the emphasis is | | | | deployed to some war area, making military training |
| more on playing on the mindset of the trainees rather | | | | essential. The last week of the air force training is |
| than on physical dexterity. They are also less formal, | | | | called as Warrior Week. In this week, a warlike |
| which allow the trainees to address their instructors as | | | | atmosphere is simulated and trainees are given |
| sir or madam, instead of their titles and posts. The air | | | | practice with the M-16 rifle. It includes cleaning the rifle, |
| force training instructors often play mind games with | | | | loading and target practice. Then there is the dreaded |
| their trainees in order to make them stronger for | | | | gas chamber drill. However the gas used is harmless |
| decision taking situations in future. They holler and yell | | | | tear gas. Yet it teaches the trainee how to cope with |
| and blow a fuse even if anyone speaks to them | | | | a gas-leak situation especially when it comes to |
| without the reporting line. They do not flinch in calling | | | | chemical and biological warfare. Most trainees at air |
| their trainees names and reprimanding them even if | | | | force boot camps cherish this week as their most |
| they have seemingly done a good job.All this physical | | | | favorite time at the boot camp.When trainees finish |
| exertion serves the purpose of making air force | | | | their training they are called airmen. Airmen can secure |
| trainees stronger individuals as they leave. Apart from | | | | admission to the Air Force. Most recruits leave their |
| this mental wrangle, the air force trainees are much | | | | jobs early and go on to higher paying civilian jobs. |
| better than their marine or military counterparts. Their | | | | Training is designed with that end in mind. |
| waking hours are more relaxed, followed by a drill | | | | |