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