You must incorporate the Air Force (AF) Core Values into your everyday life to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating well. Applying excellence during your nutrition routine helps you to stay Warrior Ready at all times.
Know that proper nutrition is imperative to being healthy and warrior ready to meet mission challenges.
Basics of Proper Nutrition
Air Force Basic Military Training (BMT) is a mentally and physically demanding environment that will challenge your mind and body to perform at levels you may not have ever considered possible.
Proper and adequate fueling and hydration is essential to meet these increased demands. All Airmen are responsible for being physically fit and mission ready at all times. Food is the fuel that supports our mental and physical performance.
Choosing the right amount of safe, high quality nutrients and fluids at the right times will sustain and optimize your physical and mental performance, wellness and health, speed the healing process and protect against disease to help you graduate from BMT on time and injury free.
As part of the AF family, you are not on this journey alone. You can refer to the information listed within this chapter or seek help from your Medical Treatment Facility (MTF), Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center’s Outpatient Nutrition Clinic and the 559th Nutrition Improvement Team.