That’s how IDF chief of staff Halevi sees it, according to the Times of Israel.
Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samariah (the West Bank), Iraq, Yemen and Iran have all targeted Israel in recent days and the Israel Defense Forces has responded and acted on six of them so far.
A bazooka, actually. In the IDF. And a paratrooper, no less (brown boots).
January 28, 2016 in Guns, Israel, Rule 5, The War, Troops
Tagged girls with gun, IDF, Israel, Rule 5
A not-unfamiliar sight in Israel. Certainly would improve the landscape here.
That’s what thirty IDF reservists have done, using the Israeli military reservist reputation for independent (okay, insubordinate) action, to help get their fellows out of the death traps laughingly called M-113 “armored” personnel carriers.
Funny only if your life doesn’t depend on them, like the six seven Golani soldiers (one of them from Texas) killed in one a week ago. The first time I rode in a 113, way back in Army training in 1967, I thought: how efficient, cheap and convenient, all the soldiers inside can be quickly buried in the thing.
Then I heard that the slab-sided, box-on-treads—an easy target for even a pathetic marksmen—was even worse: it was made of bullet-permeable aluminum. I vowed to walk when the real time came and always did.
UPDATE: According to Haaretz: “Chief of Staff Benny Gantz is already leveraging the attack on the obsolete armored personnel carrier, in which seven Golani soldiers were killed, to ask for an upgrade of all the army’s APCs.”
Posted in Infantry OCS, Israel, The War, Troops
Tagged armored personnel carriers, IDF, M-113
Sergeant Carmeli, a native of South Padre Island, on the Gulf Coast in South Texas, was one of two Israeli Americans killed fighting in Gaza on Sunday.
Nissim, 21, who had moved to Israel from Texas in 2010, was an infantryman in the elite Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces.
UPDATE: He “was an example of a new and increasingly common breed of lone soldier — a native Hebrew speaker with Israeli parents who chose to move abroad in pursuit of business opportunities, but instilled a strong sense of Israeli identity in their children, so strong that they choose to return to Israel and serve in the IDF rather than attend university overseas.”
MORE: Astounding estimates of 12,000 to 20,000 people attended his funeral services in Haifa. Reflecting the love Israelis have for their young defenders.
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Posted in Israel, Texana, The War, Troops
Tagged Golani Brigade, IDF, Sgt Nissim Sean Carmeli, South Padre Island
Israel Defense Forces mighty 7th Armored Brigade Merkavas (Hebrew for chariot) hard-charging it to Moscow. Well, according to this report in the Russian snooze media, anyhow. Go Zionist 7th! Punch it all the way to Beijing!
Via Simply Jews
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Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, Israel, The War, Troops
Tagged 7th Armored Brigade, IDF, Merkeva
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
