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Witness Texas Air National Guard F-16s in action during training operations at Lackland and Kelly AFB in San Antonio. This video captures the intensity, coordination, and raw power of frontline ...

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Airman Branden L. Dunagan of Tecumseh graduated from U.S. Air Force Basic Military Training on March 20, 2025.Dunagan underwent almost eight weeks of physical and mental preparation with the 737th ...

The recruit walked briskly up to Tech. Sgt. Bradley Middleton and pivoted to face him. To the untrained eye, nothing seemed out of place. But it was all wrong. The young airman-in-training was ...

Three-time Olympic athlete Anita Alvarez has earned herself a new title: airman. Alvarez graduated Air Force Basic Military Training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on Jan. 9 — one of 781 ...

JBSA-Lackland is looking for approximately 400 host families to participate in Operation Home Cooking and share Thanksgiving Day festivities with trainees who are in training and away from home during ...

U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with a person who shot at the main gate of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the base. An unknown suspect ...

Security forces at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland (JBSA) returned fire early Saturday on at least one drive-by suspect who is accused of firing upon the main gate at the JBSA-Chapman Training ...