The U. S. Air Force's Basic Military Training ( BMT ) is eight and a half weeks long, as they do not count your first week (" Week 0 ").

An additional 2 weeks of BMT was added to the program on November 1, 2008, extending the duration of BMT from six and a half weeks to eight and a half weeks.

The BMT was about half affected, with makeshift service patterns being set up for the duration of the strike.

It was claimed that this expansion, combined with the operating IRT, BMT, and IND lines, would provide subway service within a half mile of anyone's doorstep.

This station's name is spelled with two " e " s while the Beverley Road station on the BMT Brighton Line on the same street is spelled with three " e " s. That is because the street is split in half at Flatbush Avenue.

At the BMT half, the south track served subway trains to Manhattan and the BMT Broadway Line.

The tracks of the BMT Fourth Avenue Line are under the western half of Fourth Avenue at this point so that two additional tracks could be laid in the future if traffic ever warranted it.

The only subway line running between Midtown and Lower Manhattan was the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, which was overcrowded before the attacks and at crush density until the BMT Broadway Line reopened.

" These facilities included the surface lines ( buses and, until 1956, streetcars ) and the IRT, BMT, and IND subways ; before that date these services were managed by New York City's Board of Transportation.

The original UK registration plate was BMT 216A before being sold to businessman Gavin Keyzar.

The R44 was the first subway car since the BMT Green Hornet to incorporate a two-note warning tone that sounds immediately before the doors begin to close as the train prepares to leave the station.

This ramp was supposed to be northbound trackway of the proposed IRT Fourth Avenue Subway ( before the BRT / BMT was built ).

Historians disagree as to whether the term " BU " was commonly used before the BMT was purchased by the City of New York in 1940, or whether it was mainly an introduced term to describe the wooden elevated cars of the former private company.

The Broadway Line now connects to the tracks on the south side of the bridge, which before 1967 had connected to the BMT Nassau Street Line, carrying the Nassau Street Loop service via Chambers Street.

Preserved subway cars date as far back as the predecessor companies that came before the New York City Transit Authority, such as the BMT and IRT private companies and the city owned and operated IND.

Just before Broadway Junction, the line emerges onto an elevated structure, passing over the BMT Jamaica Line.

Other services have also used the diamond before and during the closure from 1986 to 2004 ; at least one ( a brown R diamond ) dated from a BMT special service using the same number ( BMT 2 ) as the main service that became the R from 1986 to 1988.

Another unused provision existed for many years north of 57th Street, where the two express tracks ended before being connected to the BMT 63rd Street Line in 1989.

Just before reaching Broadway ( on which the BMT Jamaica Line operates ), the line curves to the left and merges into the Jamaica Line tracks just east of Myrtle Avenue.

The line is a continuation of the BMT Jamaica Line in Brooklyn after crossing the Williamsburg Bridge ; it continues to a junction with the BMT Broadway Line just before the Montague Street Tunnel after which the line reenters Brooklyn ( no revenue service south of Broad Street since June, 2010 ).

Instead, after leaving Broadway – Lafayette Street, it would use the Chrystie Street Connection, a then-unused track connection between the BMT Nassau Street Line and the IND Sixth Avenue Line, and stop at Essex Street in Manhattan before serving all stations to Metropolitan Avenue in Queens.

For one, the BMT and PATH platforms existed decades before this portion of the station was completed.

At the north end of the station, the two express tracks, used by the B and Q trains, ramp down into a tunnel under Flatbush Avenue parallel to the IRT Eastern Parkway Line before merging with the BMT Fourth Avenue Line at DeKalb Avenue while the local tracks curve to the northeast and become an open cut after a short tunnel towards Franklin Avenue.

The union then gave the BMT a deadline: reinstate the three fired engineers by 6: 00 a. m. the next day or they would shut off the electricity for the system, affecting 2, 400, 000 BMT riders.

The IND B designation was extended past the portal of the new connection, to meet the BMT A in the middle, yet retained the BMT chaining numbers on the bridge itself.

The union launched a successful sitdown strike two days later that solidified the union's support among BMT employees, helped lead to its overwhelming victory in an NLRB-conducted election among the IRT's 13, 500 employees later that year and helped bring thousands of other transit employees into the union.

Mike Quill Corner in KingsbridgeThe union faced more serious challenges at home as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia threatened to revoke the union's status as representative of the employees of the IRT and BMT when the City bought those lines in 1940.

All service on the BMT Broadway Line ran local north of Canal Street except for the < Q >, which ran normally from 57th Street to Brighton Beach via Broadway and Brighton Express.

When it was evident he was not coming back, Mae went to work for the Brooklyn – Manhattan Transit Corporation ( BMT ).

After BMT, NSFs will receive notifications about their respective vocations, which are determined by their PES status and suitability for deployment.

NSFs who have performed well during BMT may progress to either the Specialist Cadet School ( SCS ) or Officer Cadet School ( OCS ) for further training to become Specialists ( non-commissioned officers ) or Officers.

Credit can be given on a case-by-case basis for enlistees with college credit, Eagle Scouts and service in the Civil Air Patrol qualify for promotion to E-2 ( Airman ) or E-3 ( Airman First Class ) upon graduation from BMT.

Lackland AFB has been associated with BMT for almost the Air Force's entire history.

Most successful BMT recipients eventually reach a point where they consider themselves cured for all practical purposes, although they need to be compliant with follow-up care permanently.

New subway-type equipment manufactured by the Pressed Steel Car Corp. ( who also manufactured equipment for the BMT ) was placed in service on all passenger trains.

The first R1 cars to see passenger service were twenty individual cars to serve for two 8 car trains plus spares that were placed in revenue service on the BMT Sea Beach Line from July to November, 1931 for testing and then returned to the IND the same year.

The BMT was to have been paid by the City of New York for the testing but since they were fairly extensively used in service ( made up as two 8-car trains ), the BMT and City called it even.

It is the only entry processing station for Air Force enlisted Basic Military Training ( BMT ).

Lackland is best known for its role in being the sole location for U. S. Air Force enlisted Basic Military Training ( BMT ) for the Active Duty Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.

Some BMT squadrons share dining facilities if they are located close enough together and the same is true for medical clinics.

Q was introduced as a service identifier for the Brighton Beach Express via Broadway ( Manhattan ) on the rollsigns of the R27 class of subway cars as they were delivered beginning in 1960 and on all subsequent equipment ordered for the IND / BMT divisions of the New York City subway system.

* In 1919, Brighton Beach local and express service was extended to new West End terminal at Stillwell and Surf Avenues, the location of the terminal for the BMT Southern Division.

Current plans for the Second Avenue Subway provide for the Q to be extended northward from 57th Street via the BMT 63rd Street Line, which is currently used only during service disruptions.

Contract 4 was signed between the City and the Municipal Railway Company, a subsidiary of the BRT </ pre > ( later BMT ), formed especially for the purpose of contracting with the city for construction of the lines.