<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> <P> The trainees will also visit CATM where they will fire and qualify using an M16A2 rifle . During the actual firing, trainees will fire at a man - sized target at 75 yards, 180 yards, and 300 yards in the standing, sitting, kneeling and prone positions . A total of 24 rounds will be fired during the qualification, the targets must be hit at least 17 times in order to become qualified with the weapon, and those who hit the targets at least 22 times qualify for the Small Arms Expert Ribbon . </P>

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