Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recruits sing the Air Force song during a basic training graduation at Lackland Air Force Base in April 2025. Lackland is the hub ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent weeks, a flu outbreak has sickened hundreds of recruits at Lackland Air Force Base. Above, a flight of newly arrived ...

The flu bug began spreading among Air Force basic training recruits in May. At the peak, 284 were sick and six were hospitalized. One airman died.

A worsening flu outbreak among recruits attending basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, began earlier this month while an Air Force request to reinstate a mandatory flu shot ...

SAN ANTONIO -- The day starts at 4:45 a.m. with physical training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, where every new airman reports for eight and a half weeks of basic training. Never before have the ...

Ty Benjamin Herness of Hazleton successfully completed basic training and graduated from JBSA Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, on March 26, 2026. He is a 2025 Hazleton Area High School graduate and the ...

The Air Force has confirmed a trainee died as a result of a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, according to Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). Keon McDaniel was in his sixth week of ...

In a case with echoes of a sexual abuse scandal that rocked Lackland Air Force Base a decade and a half ago, an Air Force basic training instructor pleaded guilty Thursday to having prohibited sexual ...