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Kelley received a bad conduct discharge, confinement for 12 months, and was demoted to E-1, or airman basic.
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Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
Zier could have received a year in jail as well as six months’ forfeiture of pay and allowances, three months’ hard labor and reduction in rank to airman basic.
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Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022
Critics decry the outcome as light punishment because Zier could have received a year in jail as well as six months’ forfeiture of pay and allowances, three months’ hard labor and reduction in rank to airman basic.
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Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Jan. 2022
Reimers already faced a general court-martial in March, in which he was found guilty and sentenced to 84 months of confinement, a six-grade demotion to airman basic and a dishonorable discharge, the Air Force Times reported.
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Peter Aitken, Fox News, 15 July 2021
McKennie joined the Air Force in 1989 as an airman basic and served six years on active duty.
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Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 3 June 2021
Those and other changes, large and small, are rippling to those in the lowest rank, airman basic.
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Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 9 Apr. 2020
The airman received the letter of reprimand as well as a demotion in rank to airman basic, the Air Force’s lowest enlisted rank.
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Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1952, in the meaning defined above
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“Airman basic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airman%20basic. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
airman basic
noun
: an enlisted person of the lowest rank in the air force
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