The cuteIt was decided to lower the beginning age for battalion commanders from mid-30s to early-30s, because the demandingness of battalion command is too damaging to the typical home life of mid-30s people (married with multiple children). (A typical IDF role rotation is 2-4yr, so that's one 1-2 job rotations.) Early 30s was also chosen as a ( Read more... )

* I don't know what military funerals in other countries actually look like. I know what they look like on TV and in the movies: cold. As if dying a soldier, being a soldier, takes away anything from the grief. As if being family to a soldier puts the family under obligation to not grief.

Those are not the military funerals I know.

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"ביחידת אגוז, שספגה שני הרוגים ויותר מעשרה פצועים, נכנסו הלוחמים לשטח בלי שכפ"צים, מתוך מחשבה להקל במשקל שהם נושאים עליהם ולאפשר תנועה זריזה יותר. עלו גם שאלות באשר לתנועה של מפקדים בקרבת הגדר, בתקריות ליד ניר עם ובארי, בכלי רכב לא ממוגן שאכן נפגע מאש המחבלים שיצאו משתי המנהרות ( Read more... )

...so I'm not posting any war porn this time (no, explosions are not pretty, and I don't care how artistically impressive the photo of the wreckage is) or anything that can be mistaken of propaganda (because all sides are doing too much of it), but: when I can think of half a dozen people who'd be interested in a photo, I might as well post it ( Read more... )

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*dies laughing*

Guys, guys. Remember the military comedy to which trailer I linked a couple days ago? Okay. Read the comments on the trail at Fisheye. So long as you avoid the thread about the definition on rape (in the director's graduation filmlet), it's fucking hysterical. ( Here, have the highlights in Hebrew. )

So, that mess with the cadet kicked out of Officer School for drawing a caricature of Hitler among fictional magical characters and Israeli political leaders?

Welcome to the Facebook page Officers Draw Hitler. It is exactly what it says on the tin. See select drawings at Walla or Mako news sites ( Read more... )

Ahahahaha oh Nachal. So a force from Battalion 50 was deployed to a base run by Rear Command. (Fairly normal for Infantry, who do not have a home base once they're out of training but rather get bounced around depending on what front and which sector they're on.) So they were assigned quarters and settled in. So once they were settled in, the ( Read more... )

So Opher Aderet has an item about Galatz in the 1970s, when rather then be a national darling they were constantly under threats of being shut down. Mostly that item makes the politicians and generals of then look bad, and is a good reminder of why Galatz is actually a miracle and an anomaly ( Read more... )

The news today are taken over by 40th anniversary of the Atonement Day War, yesterday's date, and Syria. (There was something else horrible on the news right now but I'm not going to mention it, because nobody here needs to hear about this. Really.) So you do you know what Galatz just did ( Read more... )