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Tag: M-4

First BMT trainees experience M-4 training, qualification
July 11, 2019 — Members of the 37th Training Support Squadron Combat Weapons Flight reopened the newly renovated combat arms training range at the Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland Medina Training Annex July 8. Basic Military Training trainees were the first to experience M-4 carbine weapons familiarization course at the range, which closed in November 2018, due to improper rainwater drainage. Since then the range has undergone refurbishing efforts to divert water runoff... MORE

Air Force Basic Military Training trainees fire their M-4 Carbine during a weapons familiarization course June 8 at Joint Base San Antonio-Medina Annex. The firing range allows instructors to train 244 BMT trainees daily, four days a week, qualifying more than 40,000 BMT trainees in the M-4 carbine annually.