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How to play basketball for the air force


Air Force launches new application tool for Airmen athletes > Air Force > Article Display

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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) --  Air Force Sports, managed by the Air Force Services Activity, recently launched an online application system to make it easier for Airmen athletes to apply for Air Force sports teams.

APPTRAC, an online application system that automatically tracks an athlete’s application, replaces the Air Force Form 303, Request for U.S. Air Force Specialized Sports Training, said Tech. Sgt. Giselle Stone, noncommissioned officer in charge of Air Force Sports.

“The tool streamlines the application process, improves status visibility and enhances communication to leadership. It’s efficient and centralizes all applications submitted in one location,” Stone said.

Athletes, supervisors and unit commanders must create accounts to submit, approve or reject applications.

The process is simple. An athlete submits an application which is then automatically sent to both the supervisor and unit commander for approval or disapproval. After input at the leadership level, athletes receive notifications to let them know the results of their application.

“If an athlete sees the application is still pending at the supervisor or unit commander level, they can take steps to find out why it hasn’t been approved or disapproved,” Stone said.

Once a package is approved and complete, the system pushes it to the Air Force Sports section in AFSVA’s Operations Directorate for review. Action officers are assigned as primary contacts for each sport and monitor applications as they come in.

Coaches and trainers also submit applications through APPTRAC. Once selected as a coach, that person is granted access to review applications from athlete candidates. The coach determines an athlete’s qualifications based on his or her level of competitions, results and experience in the sport. The coach submits his or her recommendations to Air Force Sports for consideration.

Those selected to join the Air Force Sports program receive an APPTRAC message providing details concerning requirements for upcoming permissive temporary duty stations. They’ll also receive an email from their new coach.

The APPTRAC system also generates a message to non-selectees. Those individuals may contact the Air Force Sports office for recommendations on the skills they need to improve for the following year. Air Force Sports coordinates with coaches to provide feedback to the athlete.

The Army began using the tool six years ago and it was recently expanded to include all branches of service through a grant offered by the Defense Department.

“Our main focus is taking care of our customers, in this case it’s the athletes, supervisors and commanders,” said Maj. Austin Pruneda, AFSVA chief of fitness, readiness and reserve affairs. “As we navigate the new system and climb the learning curve, we are ready to make adjustments to make the process even more user-friendly.”

To learn more about the Air Force Sports program or to apply for a spot on one of the teams, visit http://www.myairforcelife.com/Sports/.

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Prep Men's Basketball • United States Air Force Academy

Basketball players will be taught offensive and defensive schemes run by the U. S. Air Force Academy Basketball team, and will participate in a strategic, focused strength and conditioning program modeled after the Academy’s program.

The team usually competes in a 26-32 game schedule against junior colleges, NCAA/ NAIA junior varsity, and military base teams. The basketball season runs from September to February.

Men’s basketball pre-season workouts begin during Basic Military Training intramurals and the team is considered “on season” with the first official practice occurring after the Labor Day holiday. Typically the season ends over President’s Day weekend. Off-season workouts/practices begin after the last official game and end in May.


2022-2023 Men’s Basketball Schedule
DATE DAY/TIME OPPONENT LOCATION
12 Oct. Wednesday/6pm Strength N Motion USAFA Prep School
13 Oct. Thursday/6pm Strength N Motion USAFA Prep School
18 Oct. Tuesday/7pm CMB or AF Club Team USAFA Prep School
22 Oct. Saturday/1pm Otero JC Exhibition Game USAFA Prep School
25 Oct. Tuesday/7pm CMB or Peterson AFB USAFA Prep School
28 Oct. Friday/7pm Ft Carson USAFA Prep School
1 Nov. Tuesday/5pm Eastern Wyoming USAFA Prep School
4 Nov. Friday/7pm Colby CC Colby, KS
5 Nov. Saturday/2pm Northwest Tech College Colby, KS
11 Nov. Friday/TBD Central Wyoming College Riverton, WY
12 Nov. Saturday/TBD NW Wyoming College Riverton, WY
15 Nov. Tuesday/6pm Laramie County CC USAFA Prep School
19 Nov. Saturday/4pm Lamar CC Lamar, CO
22 Nov. Tuesday/5pm Northeastern JC Sterling, CO
2 Dec. Friday/5pm Northeastern JC USAFA Prep School
3 Dec. Saturday/3pm Lamar CC USAFA Prep School
6 Dec. Tuesday/6pm Laramie County CC Cheyenne, WY
9 Dec. Friday/TBD AF JV Clune Arena, USAFA
7 Jan. Saturday/3pm Trinidad State JC USAFA Prep School
14 Jan. Friday/4pm Army Prep USAFA Prep School.
14 Jan. Friday/6pm Lamar vs. Central Wyoming USAFA Prep School
15 Jan. Saturday/1pm Army Prep vs. Lamar USAFA Prep School
15 Jan. Saturday/3pm Central Wyoming USAFA Prep School
17 Jan. Tuesday/5pm Eastern Wyoming College Torrington, WY
20 Jan. Friday/6pm Trinidad State JC Trinidad, CO
26 Jan. Thursday/5pm Athletes in Action Prep USAFA Prep School
27 Jan. Friday/5pm Real Salt Lake USAFA Prep School
27 Jan. Friday/7pm AF JV vs. AIA USAFA Prep School
28 Jan. Saturday/TBD Real Salt Lake vs. AIA USAFA Prep School
4 Feb. Saturday/TBD Phoenix Prep Phoenix, AZ
5 Feb. Sunday/TBD Prep TBD Phoenix, AZ
10 Feb. Friday/TBD AF JV Clune Arena, USAFA
17 Feb. Friday/TBD Army Prep West Point, NY
18 Feb. Saturday/TBD Navy Prep West Point, NY

Yunoshevskaya team of CSK VVS

Question : Please tell us how you got into sports?
Answer : B in the fifth grade at a physical education lesson, the teacher selected girls for the school section basketball. Because of my short stature, they took me on probation. Two year (after the death of the teacher), our team was transferred to a coach from a specialized Youth №13 Cherkashin A.M.

Question : Have you done any other activities sports?
Reply : Before playing basketball, I did some sports gymnastics.

Question : Do you remember your first sports mentors?
Answer : The first mentor, I think, is the physical education teacher Rozhkov N.I. It was he who saw in me a girl talented in basketball! Cherkashin A.I. taught technical and tactical techniques.

Question : Any of those guys with whom you worked as a child, became a professional an athlete?
Response : No.

Question : What attracts you to basketball?
Answer : This is a very dynamic game where the situation changes instantly, and in a fraction of a second you need to take the right solution.

Question : At what age did you get your first sports discharge?
Answer : At the age of 14 (in the 7th grade), when we won the championship of Samara (then Kuibyshev) in mini-basketball.


Question : What is the sports category you now?
Answer : Master of sports in basketball.

Question : Where did you study after graduation?
Answer : I graduated from two universities: Kuibyshev aviation Institute and Samara Pedagogical Institute.

Question : Which sports most memorable memories?
Answer : 1. SKA - SGAU team advance to the Major League Russian Basketball Championship.
2. Participation in international tournaments in part of the Russian team.

Question : What is the most sporting award for you? expensive?
Answer : Silver medal of the USSR championship among students commands.

Question : In which cities were the competitions in which you participated?
Answer : In all capitals of the republics of the former USSR, in Poland, Hungary, China.

Question : Can you think of any interesting cases from your sports past (curious, sad or just remembered by you)?
Reply : On the last day of the Beijing International Tournament We got lost while walking around the city.

Question : When did you start working in our school?
Answer : In 1996, she had a teaching practice - I liked the school, the gym.

Question : Do you remember your first lesson at school and your feelings?
Answer : I don't remember. I was very worried.

Question : What were the difficulties in the first years at school?
Reply : None.

Question : How was the idea to open a sports class born?
Answer : Coach of the club CSK VVS Pyatov B.B. recruited third-grade boys into the basketball section. It was possible to organize an optimal training process only by combining children in the same class, which was done two years later, when the guys studied in fifth grade. I was offered a class guide in this class. Realizing As a coach, I agreed to help him. Pyatov Boris Borisovich rallied guys, instilled in them a love for basketball.

Question : What criteria were used to select guys in sports class?
Reply : Initially, it was everyone who I really wanted to play basketball. In a literal sense, these were "guys with one yard. ”In 1997, a team of boys born 1989-1990 scored Shvetsov S.V.
Of which the present currently studying at our school:
1. Dmitry Arteshin - forward.
2. Zuev Vitaly - point guard, team captain.
3. Vladimir Rasskazov - striker.
4. Sleta Vyacheslav - forward.
5. Filippov Vladimir is an attacking defender.
6. Shchennikov Dmitry - center.

Their regalia:
- multiple champions of the region
- silver medalists of the championship of Russia in 2003
- bronze medalists championship of Russia 2005
- silver medalists of the championship of Russia in 2006
Vitaly Zuev and Vladimir Filipov – participants of the European Basketball Championship in Spain (August 2005) as part of youth team of the Russian Federation.

Question : Were there guys from other cities?
Reply : Promising guys from other cities were added later: Yosipenko Sergey (Volgograd), Agapov Pavel (Syzran), Krotov Vladimir (settlement Mirny, Samara region), Garifullin Ratmir (from another district of our cities).

Question : What is your usual training regimen? Do the boys train? holiday time?
Reply : The training mode is always adjusted to the learning process, taking into account the age of the participants. In the third grade, they studied once a week, in the fifth - three times a week, in the seniors - two workouts a day. Vacation - This is the time of gathering and participation in various competitions.

Question : Apply are there any ways to increase the height of athletes, because in basketball Does growth mean a lot?
Reply : Human growth is determined at the genetic level. Basketball promotes human growth (various jumping exercises are annoying growth zone), but this does not mean that the parents of small stature who gave child in the basketball section, will grow up a tall child.

Question : What did the first sports graduation of the school achieve results?
Reply : The guys were multiple champions of the district, city, region, more than once won the Cup of the Municipality Samara. In 2001, they became bronze medalists of the Russian Championship among junior basketball. Agapov Pavel as part of the CSK VVS team won the title world champion among military personnel in 2004, as part of the youth team Russia - the title of European champion in 2005.

Question : What is the sports the fate of the guys of the first basketball team?
Response : All of them after the end schools entered universities. Are the main players in the national teams of their universities on basketball. Agapov Pavel, Glazunov Anton, Iosipenko Sergey, Garifullin Ratmir continue their professional career, playing for the men's team of the CSK VVS, two people play in other basketball clubs.

Question : From the annals school, we learned that Olga Arteshina studied at our school - a participant 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. What do you can you tell about it? Do you have a personal relationship with her?
Answer: I I know Olga and her family well, I maintain friendly relations with them. Jr Olya's brother - Arteshin Dima, studies in the 11th "B" class of our school and trains in on the school basketball team. Olga is the most titled of the Samara basketball players, she is a forward of the women's basketball team VBM - SSAU, member national team of the Russian Federation. But, despite all the sports regalia, Olga is very a humble and easy-to-communicate person.

Question : Is the second school team from the first? If yes, then what?
Reply : Naturally different. The composition of the players is different, and therefore the team is different. The similarity is that both lineups have promising guys. Both teams were championship winners Russia in basketball (first - 3rd place in 2001; second - 2nd place in 2003 year, 3rd place in 2005).

Question : Your son, Zuev Vitaly, is a captain school basketball team did you influence the choice of your son?
Reply : Vitaly , in I literally grew up in the gym. When I was little I took it with me for training. He played with the watchmen, slept in the dressing room on shifted chairs, so that the choice he made himself and for a long time. Vitaly - captain of the Russian junior team in basketball at the European Championship held in Spain.

Question : To which sport you would like to join your youngest daughter?
Reply : She is now five years old, she does gymnastics, talk about the sports future early.

Question : How do you see the prospects for the development of basketball in our school?
Answer : All prospects are connected with the honored coach of Russia Sergey Villovich Shvetsov.

Question : What kind of sports, besides basketball, are developing in our school?
Reply : Because of the large workload of the gym, the list of sports is limited:
- fencing (coach Sharlov V.V.). This year at the All-Russian tournament in Yaroslavl, a student 9 "B" class of our school, Voblikov Dima, took 3 place.
- taekwondo.

Question : What are the difficulties faced by those who are you serious about sports?
Answer: It is very difficult to combine serious activities sports with good study.

Question : Your wishes to the athletes schools.
Reply : To achieve maximum sports performance in order to justify coach's hopes.

Question : Your advice to those who have not yet become interested in any of sports.
Reply : Decide on a sport faster and start systematic exercises.

105 years since the founding of the military aviation of Russia - Tatarstan in Russian

On August 12, the Day of the Aerospace Forces is celebrated in Russia. 105 years ago, by decree of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, the staff of the aeronautical unit of the Main Directorate of the General Staff was formed. For more than a century of history, Russian aviation has passed a glorious military path. Today, the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation are considered one of the strongest in the world. About new aircraft and the prospects for the development of Russian military aviation - in the material RT.

August 12, 1912, by decree of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II, the staff of the aeronautical unit of the Main Directorate of the General Staff was formed. This day is considered to be the beginning of the creation of Russian military aviation. Russian Air Force Day was established by decree of the President of the Russian Federation in 2006. In 2015, the Air Force became part of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

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participation of more than 150 aircraft.

A large-scale celebration of the anniversary of the Russian Space Forces will be held in the Patriot park at the Kubinka airfield. The air show will last two hours. During this time, military pilots will demonstrate to the audience all types of domestic military aviation aircraft from restored aircraft from the period of the First and Second World Wars - Farman, Piper Cub, Douglas DC-3, Il-2, MiG-3, S-47 - to the latest fighters - T-50, Su-35 and Su-30.

In addition, the Swifts, Russian Knights, Russian Falcons and Berkuts air groups will take to the skies. The pilots will demonstrate the skills of group and single aerobatics and air combat techniques. The smoke show will be shown by Su-25 aircraft.

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As part of the celebration, the audience will be able not only to see all the capabilities of the modern Aerospace Forces of Russia, but also try themselves in the role of military pilots. For visitors to the festival, training simulators and simulators will be installed, on which anyone can try their hand at operating aircraft.

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Flight through the centuries

Russian military aviation has a long and glorious history. Combat aircraft of Russia took part in the First World War. Despite the fact that the Russian industry at that time lagged behind the military industry of other countries and most of the aircraft were created at foreign factories, in 1915, domestic designers were able to create the world's first multi-engine bomber "Ilya Muromets" and a specialized fighter aircraft to accompany it.

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Great attention was paid to the development of military aviation in Soviet times. In the prewar period, the balance of the Armed Forces of the USSR received many new models of military aircraft: Il-2 attack aircraft, MiG-3, Yak-1, LaGG-3 fighters. In the post-war period, the fourth generation fighters, the Su-29, were created in the Soviet Union.and MiG-27.

The Russian Aerospace Forces occupy an important place in the armed forces of our country. Russian combat aircraft are considered among the most powerful in the world. In terms of the number of aircraft, domestic airborne forces are second only to the United States. According to the 2015 rating compiled by Flight International magazine, Russia has 3,547 combat aircraft, while the United States has 13,717 military aircraft.

In the sky above the Motherland

Until 2015, the Russian Air Force was a separate branch of the country's armed forces. By decree of President Vladimir Putin, the Air Force became part of the Aerospace Forces (VKS) of Russia.

The structure of the Russian Aerospace Forces includes three types of troops: the air force, air and missile defense troops, and space troops.

The Russian Air Force includes long-range, military transport and army aviation, as well as anti-aircraft, missile and radio engineering troops. In addition, the Russian air force has its own special forces that provide intelligence and communications, electronic warfare, rescue operations and protection against weapons of mass destruction.

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The air defense and anti-missile defense forces include radio engineering troops and electronic warfare troops, fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft missile troops.

The tasks of the space troops include monitoring space objects, identifying and repelling possible threats in space, launching spacecraft and controlling military satellites.

The main tasks of the Russian Aerospace Forces in peacetime are the protection of the state border of the country in the airspace, notification of the leadership about the flights of foreign reconnaissance vehicles in the border zone.

VKS - air shield of the country's armed forces. And in the conditions of hostilities, military aircraft are the first to fly to protect the territories of the state from enemy air strikes, ensure the actions of the Ground Forces and the Navy, strike at enemy air, land and sea groupings, ensure the transportation and dropping of troops and military equipment.

At a combat post

Since 2015, Russian military pilots, at the request of the Syrian authorities, have been performing missions on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic as part of a military operation against the Islamic State* terrorist group.

New modern threats require the modernization of the country's military space forces. According to open sources, the fleet of the Russian Aerospace Forces consists of more than 800 fighters (Su-27, Su-30, Su-33, Su-35, MiG-29, MiG-31), about 150 strike aircraft (Su-24 and Su-34 ), 200 attack aircraft (Su-25), 150 training aircraft (Yak-130 and others), about 70 strategic bombers (Tu-95 and Tu-160), more than 40 Tu-22M3 long-range bombers.

In 2016, the Russian Armed Forces received 59combat aircraft (12 MiG-29SMT, 2 Su-30M2, 17 Su-30SM, 16 Su-34, 12 Su-35S) and ten combat training Yak-130s.

New, modern, maneuverable

Today, the modernization of the Russian air military fleet is in full swing. The Russian Aerospace Forces are receiving new Su-35 fighters, Mi-28 Night Hunter and Ka-52 Alligator helicopters. However, according to experts, the most breakthrough developments will be fighters created under the programs of the promising aviation complex of front-line and long-range aviation (PAK FA and PAK DA)

“The newest Russian aircraft of the fifth generation T-50, which has already received the official name Su-57, is a truly modern aircraft. It will be an inconspicuous, highly maneuverable, multi-role fighter. This is our analogue of the American F-22 Raptor, ”Dmitry Kornev, founder of the Military Russia portal, told RT.

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According to the expert, it is assumed that a series of 12 front-line aviation fighters will be launched by 2019.

Military expert Konstantin Sivkov, in an interview with RT, noted that the latest Russian Su-57 fighter is superior to the American counterpart in many criteria.

“The Russian fighter jet is superior to the American F-22 Raptor in flight range, in terms of long-range missiles used: our aircraft has a missile with a range of about 380 km. Moreover, the Su-57 is better than the Raptor in terms of air combat, and in terms of aerodynamics and hull configuration, our fighter is as inconspicuous as the American, ”added the RT interlocutor.

Experts told RT that Russia continues to improve the MiG-31 and MiG-31BM fighter-interceptors, the Su-24 M bomber. The assembly of the first serial Tu-160M2 strategic bomber has already begun, work is underway to create a light fighter and new types of helicopters .

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In May 2017, Russia began developing a promising long-range aviation complex.

“This will be a real breakthrough and an exit to the current world level. The new aircraft being developed by the Tupolev company will be a flying wing aircraft, subsonic, modern, economical. This will be a platform for the use of long-range precision weapons. It is planned that he will work with other branches of the military, ”says Kornev.

The first flight of the PAK DA is scheduled for 2025-2026.

But these are far from all the novelties that will replenish the Russian Air Force in the future. Sivkov, in an interview with RT, spoke about the development by Russian aircraft designers of a fundamentally new aircraft.

“A new breakthrough will be the creation of the A-100 aircraft based on the Il-76-MD-90A. This is the development of the A-50 aircraft, which is now actively used by our military in Syria, but more advanced. The A-100 will have a much more powerful radio-technical complex, will be able to detect low-flying targets, and will be able to automatically target air targets (now this is all happening in manual mode),” the expert explained.


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