<P> Trainees undergo extensive training with the M - 16 . Trainees will learn and practice the rules for safe use and handling of the weapon . They will also receive training in how to assemble, disassemble, clean and repair the M - 16 . </P> <P> In Week 4, Trainees will attend the FEST Courses teaching them the basics needed to move onto the BEAST during the 5th WOT . Activities include basic Rifle Fighting techniques, crawling through a sand course and learning how to move in columns and use proper hand signaling . Trainees will also go through CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Environment) training and learn how to counter threats such as terrorism, biological and chemical weapons and security breaches . Included in the CBRNE training is gas mask and MOPP gear training, where trainees will be exposed to CS Gas . Trainees also take official BMT Portraits during the fourth week </P> <P> During Week Five, trainees will be sent to the BEAST on the Medina Annex . The BEAST, or Basic Expeditionary Airman Skills Training, is the final test in BMT . This represents the culmination of all the skills and knowledge an Airman should possess . These skills and tactics the trainees have learned will be put to test in realistic field training exercises and combat scenarios . </P> <P> It is a 5 - day exercise that will test all of the CBRNE skills that the trainees were taught in the fifth week of training . The trainees will also be taught basic combatives as well as engaging in pugil stick battles utilizing the rifle fighting techniques they were taught . The trainees are required to wear body armor and helmets, as well as two canteens and an M16 . The site has four zones, called Reaper, Phantom, Vigilant and Sentinel, that simulate self - contained forward operating bases . Each zone is a ring of 10 field tents for barracks, centered around a three - story observation tower and a hardened briefing facility that serves as an armory and bomb shelter . The zone is defended by five sandbag defensive firing positions and trainees control access to the zone through an entry control point . </P>

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