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[Givati575]

Thanks Yeah, I'm terrible in translating Israeli military terms into English. Until now I was sure squad is a chuliya.

don't go to makim mukdam!!!!! you'll have no field experience when you finish and all your soldiers will know more than you!

[Kaplanr]

Sharon was good.. But from what I read, he didn't have very good diplomatic skills when speaking with foreign leaders like King Hussein for example.

Doesn't surprise me, that's why they invented Foreign Ministers. I'd bet that Sharon's personal relationships with other leaders was black & white, meaning they were or they weren't, and were matters of personal chemistry. The only one he probably cared about was with W. I'd also bet that for many leaders, Sharon's history as Begin's Defense Minister overshadowed everything else, even if they found him a congenial man.
What's kind of intriguing is that Sharon and Rabin came from similar backgrounds but were obviously very different personalities. Rabin never seemed comfortable in a crowd, he wasn't a glad-hander. When he was Israeli Ambassador to the US after 67, he hated the cocktail circuit and all the show that came with the position. Sharon, loved working the crowd. He was a very magnetic guy and could be one of the hevre. I met him in 1980 when he was Begin's Agriculture Minister. I got caught up in a conversation on how best to plow furrows for cotton; he knew his stuff, and could give us 10 reasons why a David Brown was better tractor for doing what we wanted to do than a Deere. For 60 minutes we were 25 kibbutzniks who forgot that we despised the gov't he represented.

[Gomel]

Video link to a very recent military exercise in the Negev..
http://www.kikar.net/article.php?id=17792

Nice video.

Now for the pics




























































































Overkill?

[swatteam6]

What exactly were they training for?

[Givati575]

What exactly were they training for?

if you read the article posted you would have read that it was an excersize mocking a future war or battle in a Palestinian town.


and for gomel.....no that's definitely not overkill!!!! It's all worth it and it's possibly the best kind of training soldiers can get, working with each branch of the military and at the end you get complimented by Gabi?! Nothing could be better.

This excersize resembles the sof kurs katzinim one as well......

[GiladS]

if you read the article posted you would have read that it was an excersize mocking a future war or battle in a Palestinian town.

Despite what the article says this exercise seems more suitable to simulate a future campaign in the north (i.e Syria/Lebanon).

This excersize resembles the sof kurs katzinim one as well......

That's what it was, a concluding exercise for the the land officers course aimed at simulating cooperation between the different land corps and the AF.

[Givati575]

Despite what the article says this exercise seems more suitable to simulate a future campaign in the north (i.e Syria/Lebanon).



That's what it was, a concluding exercise for the the land officers course aimed at simulating cooperation between the different land corps and the AF.

yeah i noticed the captured katyusha trucks. It's funny. For all these drills across the country they drag around the same blown up trucks to get re-blown up again by tanks and the same exotically painted katyusha launchers. So yeah the article got it wrong....definitely geared towards northern campaigns.

[GiladS]

yeah i noticed the captured katyusha trucks. It's funny.

Nevermind the trucks... you think that in the Gaza Strip the IDF would need assault bridges, drop supplies from C-130s or have self propelled howitzers advance into enemy territory?

[Givati575]

Nevermind the trucks... you think that in the Gaza Strip the IDF would need assault bridges, drop supplies from C-130s or have self propelled howitzers advance into enemy territory?

i was going to mention those as well but it seems your fingers have more energy than mine today.

[Gomel]

Maybe I shouldn't have included the white phosphorus picture. Heaven forbid Justice Richard Goldstone see's it.

[GiladS]

[Elemental666]

don't go to makim mukdam!!!!! you'll have no field experience when you finish and all your soldiers will know more than you!

You're not the first one to tell me this. But chances are I'm going to end up as Mak tironim anyway.

[GiladS]

You're not the first one to tell me this. But chances are I'm going to end up as Mak tironim anyway.

I'd say that's worse... well depending on what you want to do with your service.

[Givati575]

You're not the first one to tell me this. But chances are I'm going to end up as Mak tironim anyway.

is that what you really want?

[Elemental666]

I'd say that's worse... well depending on what you want to do with your service.

is that what you really want?

Well, makim mukdam is the fastest way to get to officers course... Of course I'd rather be a Mak in Plugat Maslul, but you can't get it all.