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U.S. Air Force Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training
A new five-day deployment exercise called the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, nicknamed BEAST, kicked off on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008. BEAST has been added to the eight-and-a-half week Basic Military Training curriculum that began Nov. 5.Air Force basic trainees inspect each other's body armor during the five-day deployment exercise known as the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, or BEAST, which kicked off on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008. Air Force basic trainees armed up in body armor wait their turn to go through an unexploded ordnance disposal training lesson on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008.U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicole Pino, leads Air Force basic trainees in body armor to their unexploded ordnance disposal training lesson on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008. Pino is a military training instructor for the 737 Training Support Squadron.Air Force basic trainees armed up in body armor walk through an unexploded ordnance disposal training lesson taught by U.S. air Force Tech. Sgt. Nicole Pino on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008.Air Force basic trainees in body armor use hand signals as they take a knee during a tactical drill movement on an "improvised explosive device" lane as part of a new training exercise on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 17, 2008.An Air Force basic trainee in body armor hits a strike-dummy as he makes his way through the tactical drill course during Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, known as BEAST, on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 17, 2008.
A new five-day deployment exercise called the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, nicknamed BEAST, kicked off on Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, Dec. 15, 2008. BEAST has been added to the eight-and-a-half week Basic Military Training curriculum that began Nov. 5.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Desiree N. Palacios