Posted on 01/11/2005 6:11:00 AM PST by neverdem
Yes...
When Israeli children turn 16 they go to a summer camp called GADNA (please correct spelling if it is wrong). This where they get military training. Boys and Girls train alongside each other. I know this because I went on an educational tour of Israel and we spent two weeks in a Gadna Camp. Believe me, my little JAP ass from Long Island did not like getting up at 5am, running a couple of miles with a rifle slung over mys shoulder. But I do have the picture to prove it!
"When Israeli children turn 16 they go to a summer camp called GADNA..."
A little correction:
"When Israeli children turn 16 they CAN go to a summer camp called GADNA..."
This is not a must. Personaly, I never been there.
Its just an option as many other summer camps.
Didn't know that, was it ever mandatory? It was the 1970's when I was there.
Actually, I think the odds were even worse than that. I don't know any actual numbers but my guess would be that there were about 7 Arab armies converging on Israel. Each army was between 100,000 and 300,000 trained & armed men. They attacked the newly born nation that had around 30,000 Jewish adults, (important because the Arabs were there to destroy the jews so no arab who lived in Israel would help the jews, infact they almost all left so they wouldn't get hit in crossfire creating the homeless Palestinian refugees) hardly any trained fighters (maybe 10% of the men would be about 1,500) and they had hardly any weaponry since it was all outlawed by the then brittish occupiers.
I think the actual numbers are in a book I have at home so I can get them if anyone wants facts instead of guesses.... Hardly needed when the purpouse of the thread is too see beautiful women in fatigues......
Only the service in the IDF is a must, when the Israelis are 18 years old (except some Haredim with religion problems).
In the age of 17 every Israeli gets the first order to the IDF's recruiting office. There they are passing medical checks to put a military profile, interviews, psychotechnical tests and other things.
After that, according to the tests results and medical checks and interviews, they get options to choose a duty that they would prefer to serve at. Some get their wishes, while others dont (depends of course on their physichal and technical abilities).
Those who can serve at combat and elite forces try to pass many other tests so the IDF will decide where to mobilize them.
Others dont know where they are going to serve until they get the mobilization order in the age of 18.
Only when they start their service on the day the mobilization order says, their first trainings start.
Hope I cleared something.
At the time the Yom Kippur war started, information, without satellites, 24 hour news channels, and cell phones, was a totally different animal than now,,( looking back, it seems almost prehistoric).. Anyways, the first night of the war, I remember we're in bed, maybe 1 am or so, watching the news, think it was Huntley/Brinkley.. and the phone rings. It's for my girlfriend, the UJA phoning for an emergency fundraising appeal. We of course made a pledge. Next morning..5 am, I'm up at my usual time..and take the dogs for a walk. Going out the door, I see tucked in our mail slot an envelope. I'm curious...I had picked up the mail last night, and the paper never came that early in the morning..what was it?..An envelope from the UJA/Federation, confirming our pledge, with an s.a.s.e asking us to send it in immediately, as it was urgently needed, and to consider adding more if we could.
I remember grinning as I went back inside to show my girlfriend. The logistics of the task were so impressive. It took less than 4 hours to solicit and record our pledge, prepare the envelope, and the personally addressed appeal, and in the middle of the night, have it in our mailbox. I told her that if a bunch of little old Jewish ladies ( metaphorically speaking, or course) could pull this off...( and again, imagine it happening tens of thousands of times more in the same night) then the Arabs didn't have a chance..logistics is perhaps the major component of any military victory, after the initial contact, and the Arabs were not in the same league..
PING !
You did, thank you very much!
WOW!!!
They can capture me ANYTIME!!!
There's something about beautiful women with guns that really turns me on.
I like the two on the left.
The third photo is my long time favorite! ;-)
;)
the one on the bottom left, my favorite
Yeah. She's the foxiest of the two.
Sheesh you guys...get a room.
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