Air and Space Training Ribbon

Service awardFormerly the Air Force Training Ribbon · AFTR

For completing initial accession training.

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How you get it

You earn this by meeting the requirements. No recommendation is needed. If it's missing from your record, current members can have their MPF add it. Veterans can request it from AFPC with a Standard Form 180 and supporting documents.

You qualify if any of these apply

Completed initial accession training (e.g., BMT, OTS, ROTC, or the Academy) after Aug. 14, 1974
Was on active duty in December 1986, regardless of when you completed initial accession training

Quick facts

Category: Service and training ribbons
Type: Service award
Authorized devices: Oak Leaf Cluster
WAPS points: 0
Position in the AFPC listing: 72 of 91 (listed in order of precedence)

Full AFPC fact sheet text

Background

This ribbon was authorized by the Air Force Chief of Staff on Oct.12, 1980.

Criteria

It is awarded to U.S. Air Force service members on completion of initial accession training after Aug. 14, 1974. In December 1986, the criteria expanded and authorized the ribbon to anyone who was on active duty in December 1986, regardless of when they completed initial accession training.

The ribbon may not be awarded for completing technical training, career development courses and other services' basic training. Completing later accession training (basic military training, then commissioning through a program, and so forth) will entitle a member to a subsequent award denoted by an oak leaf cluster.

Ribbon description

The ribbon was designed by the Institute of Heraldry. The ribbon has a wide center stripe of red, flanked on either side by a wide stripe of dark blue and a narrow yellow stripe edged by a narrow dark blue stripe.

Authorized device

Oak Leaf Cluster

Source: Air and Space Training Ribbon fact sheet, Air Force's Personnel Center