Posted on 07/23/2011 1:53:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The August 2011 IDF recruitment cycle will begin Monday, July 24. The youth joining the IDF in this cycle were born in the summer and fall of 1993 – just when then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin signed the ill-fated Oslo Accords with PLO strongman Yasser Arafat.
When the “Oslo babies” were three years old, savage Hamas terrorists began blowing up buses full of civilian men, women and children inside Israel. When they were seven years old, Arafat launched the terror war dubbed by many as “the Oslo War,” which killed over 1,000 Israelis, most of them civilians, and injured many thousands more. The carnage peaked in 2002 and 2003, and did not ebb until 2005. The PLO sought to break Israel’s spirit by making civilians feel they were not safe anywhere.
Now at 18, they are highly motivated to fight the enemy on land and sea and in the air. According to the IDF, their motivation is identical to that of last year: 73.3% of the enlistees eligible for combat in field units asked to serve as combat soldiers, the same percentage as in August 2010.
Ninety-five percent of the soldiers placed in combat had asked to serve in combat. This is a slight rise from last August, in which that percentage was 94%.
All (100%) of the enlistees in the field units get to serve in a unit that was one of their first three choices for service.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
You all remember seeing that side-by-side photo of Netanyahu and Ozero at about the same age? Which one of those guys would more likely inspire you to join the combat arms?
... “All (100%) of the enlistees in the field units get to serve in a unit that was one of their first three choices for service.”
That would have made a big difference back in the 60s where we were only promised a general field. It sucks to have to do something you really dislike. And nobody ever got the three bases of choice so it was treated as a joke. Something about the “war pipeline”.
How things change.
I remember the late nineties. There were all sorts of articles about how military service had become terminally uncool with Israeli youth. How everyone who was anyone was finding ways to be exempt. How Israel was losing its mojo...
Sure. The decades of uninterrupted piece and harmony that were to follow Oslo would make military service obsolete, too.
Now at 18, they are highly motivated to fight the enemy on land and sea and in the air. ...Ninety-five percent of the soldiers placed in combat had asked to serve in combat. ...All (100%) of the enlistees in the field units ...
These figures relate to those already enlisted. How many are not doing military service? Also, the desire to be in active combat units is not very useful for the IDF. They need troops willing for the least liked, and least glamorous duty, serving as occupation forces in the territories.
“These figures relate to those already enlisted. How many are not doing military service?”
Good question.
” Also, the desire to be in active combat units is not very useful for the IDF. They need troops willing for the least liked, and least glamorous duty, serving as occupation forces in the territories.”
Not all that desire combat service will do it, because there isn’t much combat usually, until there’s a war. But even so, it’s a good measure of the motivation of the new enlistees. If they were all just looking for career training and REMF jobs, it would spell trouble, what with a major war becoming more likely by the day.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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