![Basic Trainees guard the gate to "The Beast" at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The facility gives new Airmen basic combat and survival skills as part of their training to become new Basic Trainees guard the gate to "The Beast" at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The facility gives new Airmen basic combat and survival skills as part of their training to become new](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/EG17KC/basic-trainees-guard-the-gate-to-quotthe-beastquot-at-lackland-air-EG17KC.jpg)
Basic Trainees guard the gate to "The Beast" at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The facility gives new Airmen basic combat and survival skills as part of their training to become new
BMT BEAST Week highlighted in AF Week in Photos > Air Education and Training Command > Article Display
![A new five-day deployment exercise called the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, nicknamed BEAST, A new five-day deployment exercise called the Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills and Training, nicknamed BEAST,](https://media.defense.gov/2008/Dec/19/2001151546/-1/-1/0/520240-R-CFP32-971.jpg)