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Serial No. 3817131 (A photographic essay of women in the IDF)
http://www.rachelpapo.com/ ^
| 2005
| Rachel Papo
Posted on 04/02/2006 6:23:27 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
The life of an eighteen-year-old girl in Israel is interrupted when she is plucked out of her environment at an age when sexual, educational, and family values are at their highest exploration point. She is then placed in a rigorous institution, where individuality becomes a secondary matter, making room for nationalism. I solemnly swear
to devote all of my strength and to sacrifice my life to protect the land and the liberty of Israel, repeats the newly recruited soldier during her swearing-in ceremony. She enters the two-year period in which she will change from a girl to a woman, a teenager to an adult, all under a militaristic, masculine environment, and in the confines of an army that is engaged in daily war and conflict.
I decided to portray female soldiers in Israel during their mandatory military service as a way for me to revisit my own experience. I served as a photographer in the Israeli Air Force between 1988-1990. It was a period marked by continuous depression and extreme loneliness, and at the time I was too young to understand these emotions. Through a series of images showing female soldiers in army bases and outside, individually or in groups, I attempt to reveal a facet of this experience that is generally overlooked by the global community.
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KEYWORDS: girlswithgunsarehot; guns; idf; israel; military; woem
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To: stm
Except for the moustache...
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posted on
04/02/2006 7:22:41 PM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
To: Born Conservative
That's why hydrogen peroxide was invented!
Here's a whole gaggle of them:
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posted on
04/02/2006 7:32:33 PM PDT
by
stm
(You can fix a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid)
To: FreedomCalls; tomkow6; txradioguy; Old Sarge; Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; StarCMC; All
23
posted on
04/02/2006 8:07:44 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
To: stm
24
posted on
04/02/2006 8:15:05 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: FreedomCalls
I just noticed by clicking through some of the links on her web page, that these pictures are currently on
exhibition at the
Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles until the 15th of April.
25
posted on
04/02/2006 8:25:18 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: ThreePuttinDude
compare to these women
26
posted on
04/02/2006 8:28:12 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: FreedomCalls
27
posted on
04/02/2006 8:29:20 PM PDT
by
HitmanLV
(Some people like to dash it out, but they just can't take it!)
To: finnman69
I bet they dont shower with their weapon.
These girls look like they are getting some real world training.
28
posted on
04/02/2006 8:32:15 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: finnman69
More here. 377 more pages of pictures of women in the various armed forces around the world to be exact.
29
posted on
04/02/2006 8:34:24 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: Delta 21
I bet they dont shower with their weapon. ![](http://www.rachelpapo.com/serialno3817131/images/64.jpg)
It certainly seems to be not ever too far from their reach.
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posted on
04/02/2006 8:37:39 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: SevenofNine
WOW!! Thanks for the ping!!
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posted on
04/02/2006 8:50:23 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing...thank you Sarge.)
To: FreedomCalls
Sorry, but I just don't feel that safe with a bunch of women thinking they can defend themselves much less an army of men that WILL kill them at the drop of a hat.
32
posted on
04/02/2006 8:55:30 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Re-Instated It !)
To: FreedomCalls
I was referring to the lovelies in #26.
It looks like these Israeli girls took a Marine Corp-esque creed to their weapon.
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posted on
04/02/2006 8:56:07 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
To: FreedomCalls; Cinnamon Girl
To: Delta 21
Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. I guess this is basic training or some other type training they are in.
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posted on
04/02/2006 9:29:17 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: finnman69; All
OMG only NAG gang would hit on those ladies LOL!
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posted on
04/02/2006 10:06:47 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(I'd rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy)
To: Tailback
"What a bunch of rag bags".
I would rather train them to fight than to parade down the street. A couple of years of this wouldn't hurt our kids.
Fort Dix sure was good for my little daughter. I take some of the credit, she was making head shots on squirrels with a .22 by the time she started 4th grade.
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posted on
04/03/2006 3:15:30 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(LET ME DIE ON MY FEET, IN MY SWAMP)
To: stm
Here's a whole gaggle of them: A whole giggle of them?
38
posted on
04/03/2006 4:07:08 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: FreedomCalls
The 11th Commandment at boot camp:
Thou shalt keep the strap of thy weapon across thy shoulder at all times, and down thou shall point it, lest the wrath of thy drill sergeant be held against you, and mighty be her wrath.
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posted on
04/03/2006 4:09:54 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: FreedomCalls
Basic Training wouldda been a lot more fun if my "fellow" trainees had looked anything like that.
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