USAF to Suspend Keesler BMT in November

Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., will welcome its final BMT flight of 2020 in the last week of September, 2nd Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. Andrea D. Tullos told reporters on Sept. 21. “We’ll then take about 90 days to do an after-action and a reassessment of how that operation went, and we will have plans, if asked and if necessary, to resume BMT probably no earlier than February of next year,” she said. Fiscal 2021 production targets don't merit the use of two BMT locations next year, though she noted that “COVID gets a vote.” Read more ►