Air Force Basic Training to Add Mock Airfields with F-16, C-130s

Air Force Basic Training to Add Mock Airfields with F-16, C-130s

Second Air Force officials plan to inject more realism in Basic Military Training this year by building two mock airfields where Airmen will get hands-on training with real combat aircraft. By October, BMT officials at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, hope to complete the first airbase training range outfitted with a mock concrete runway, two C-130 Hercules Aircraft, and an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, they told Air & Space Forces Maga…