airman basic

noun

: an enlisted person of the lowest rank in the air force

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Those and other changes, large and small, are rippling to those in the lowest rank, airman basic. — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 9 Apr. 2020 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. — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2022 McKennie joined the Air Force in 1989 as an airman basic and served six years on active duty. — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 3 June 2021 Kelley received a bad conduct discharge, confinement for 12 months, and was demoted to E-1, or airman basic. — Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023 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. — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 15 July 2021

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First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of airman basic was in 1952

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airman basic

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: an enlisted person of the lowest rank in the air force
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