The Air Force Basic Military Training (BMT) is approximately 8.5 weeks long and is structured into a specific timeline with various training segments.
Each week has its own set of objectives and training events. Below is a typical timeline schedule for Air Force BMT:
Week 0 – Activities and Requirements
- First week briefing
- 737th Training Group/Commander (CC)/Superintendent (CCC) briefing
- Clothing, running shoe, and equipment issue
- Dorm and drill basics
- Haircuts
- Coping with BMT
- Health, morale, and welfare
- Immunization and blood draw
- Initial Base Exchange (BX) issue
- Initial phone call
- Pay setup
- Physical training
- Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ)
Week 1 – Activities and Requirements
- Reporting and saluting procedures
- Entry control procedures
- Medical and dental appointments
- Fitness and nutrition briefing
- Educational benefits briefing (Montgomery GI Bill/Post 9/11)
- ID card issue
- Individual and flight drill
- Dorm/recruit living area preparation
- Air Force rank insignia recognition
- Weapon issue and familiarization
- Human relations and cultural sensitivity
- Air Force initial PT assessment
- Airmen’s Time
- Commander’s arrival briefing
- Dress and appearance check
- Physical training
- Immunizations
- Introduction to classroom procedures
- Military entitlements and educational opportunities
- Suicide awareness and prevention
- Chapel guide meeting
Week 2 – Activities and Requirements
- Career guidance
- Air Force History and Organization
- Airmen’s Time—Flight commander team building (“which side”)
- Airmen’s Time—P2 debriefing
- Drill practice
- Profession of arms
- Chapel guide meeting
- A new beginning
- “What Now Airman?”—Sign the form
- Human relations and basic situational awareness
- Open ranks/D&A progress check
- Weapon handling and maintenance
- Professional interpersonal interactions
- Physical training
- Recruit living area appraisal and evaluation
Week 3 – Activities and Requirements
- Second clothing issue (service uniform)
- Dress and appearance inspection
- Interview sessions
- 3 Week of Training (WOT) PT appraisal
- Airmen’s Time
- Airmen’s Time—P2 debriefing
- Basic leadership and character development
- Chapel guide meeting
- Cyber awareness
- Drill
- Weapons handling and maintenance
- Professional Airman development
- Resilience training
- “What Now Airman?”—Extra duty
- Healthy lifestyle and adaptation training
- Public relations and media awareness
- Trafficking in persons awareness training
- Warrior role development
Week 4 – Activities and Requirements
- Airmen’s Time
- Airmen’s Time—Flight commander team building (“copycat”)
- Base liberty briefing
- Chapel guide meeting
- Haircuts
- Drill
- “What Now Airman?”—Big brother
- Physical training
- Base referral agencies overview
- Career progression and quality of life training
- Environmental awareness
- Financial readiness
- Joint ethics training
- Military citizenship training
- Sexually transmitted diseases awareness
- Sexual Assault Prevention and Reporting (SAPR) training
- Recruit living area appraisal
- Antiterrorism/force protection level 1
Week 5 – Activities and Requirements
- Airmen’s Time
- Airmen’s Time—FC team building (“box score”)
- Balance and mission role development
- Warrior ethos training
- “What Now Airman?”—Relationships
- Military skills progress check
- Physical training
- Weapons progress check
- Individual portraits and flight photos
- Second boot issue
- Recruit living area progress check
- Combat stress recovery
- Introduction to Air Force combatives
- Introduction to Code of Conduct
- Joint operations training
- Law of Armed Conflict training
- Mental preparation for combat
- Principles of first aid training
- Drill progress check
Week 6 – Activities and Requirements
- Computer-based training/Air Force portal familiarization
- Written test
- Physical Training (PT) evaluation
- Air and Space Expeditionary Force and pre-deployment briefing
- Air Force fitness program
- Airmanship core value briefing
- Airmen’s Time—Flight commander team building (“self-assessment”)
- Hometown news release
- Chemical, Biological, Radiation, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense
- Drill
- Leadership and followership training
- “What Now Airman?”—Help wanted
- Foundational Expeditionary Skills Training (FEST)
- Open ranks/D&A progress check
- Chapel guide meeting
Week 7 – Activities and Requirements
- Physical training
- Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training (BEAST)/zone orientation
- Blood donor program
- Combat Arms Training and Maintenance (CATM)
- Combatives applications (pugil sticks training)
- Creating Leaders, Airmen, and Warriors (CLAW) field exercises
- Deployment line processing/equipment issue
- SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) video
- Mission field exercises
- Refresher drills (FEST, first aid, UCC, PAR)
- Zone teardown/remediation
- Drill
Week 8 – Activities and Requirements
- Physical training
- Airmen’s Time
- “What Now Airman?”—Celebration
- Risk awareness (“risky business”)
- Haircuts
- Orders pickup/tech training school briefing
- Commander’s departure briefing
- Town pass briefing
- Base liberty
- Open house
- Town pass
- Airman’s Run
- Airman’s Coin and formal retreat ceremony
- Airman’s Parade
- Graduation