Ok, Ok, I know it’s been a while since I’ve given an update. If you hadn’t heard I got into the 101st Pluga (company), not the 202nd like I thought I would be going. The only thing I’m a little disappointed about is that now I won’t have the possibility of going to sniper school (apparently only 202 is getting snipers this draft). I still have the possibility of being a Kala (sharpshooter) and I’ve been doing pretty well in target practice so we’ll see what happens…
We’ve learned a lot these past couple weeks and I’m really starting to get into the groove of basic training. I’m sure it’s only going to get harder and more intensive but here’s a bit of a run down of what we’ve been up to lately (keep in mind all of these include lots of classroom lessons before hand):
- first aid including tourniquet’s, bandages, rescue breathing etc. We all did a basic course for field first aid, basically if someone’s shot or injured how to care for them before a medic shows up.
- We had a barour. A barour is a basic physical test. nothing special, running, situps, pushups.
- gas tent full of tear gas. Below is an image of me wearing a gas mask, the thing about this exercise is that they make you run around and do pushups before you run into the tent so you’re breathing heavily. It’s harder to breath in the gas mask and when you’re inside the tent you only run and do more pushups, eventually they tell you to take off your gas masks. Your body forces you to take a gigantic breath as soon as you take off your mask and you instantly realize how terrible of an idea that was… The burning in your lungs is sensational and soon after you realize that your eyes are on fire and tearing at the same time. 15-20 seconds later they tell you to run out of the tent into the open air. Slowly the burning and tingling fades away over the course of 5-10 minutes, but I definitely know now how that stuff disperses a whole crowd of people so quickly… a weird part of me wants to try it again!
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dont mess with me.
the tent full of tear gas
- Target shooting with iron sights and reflex scope. We’ve certainly been putting in the hours at the shooting ranges. Haven’t been shooting a ton of bullets yet, but we’ve calibrated our guns and began doing some training (speed shooting and night shooting so far). Iron sights are ok to shoot with but the reflex scope that we have is awesome. The scopes are made by an Israeli company and the dot stays on target no matter where you move your head! Very cool stuff, it has a radioactive element in it so it works day and night without batteries!
one of the shooting ranges
- We threw a grenade. Honestly wasn’t as cool as I thought it would be… it was pretty much just like throwing a baseball and then hearing loud boom. You can’t watch it blow up because you have to duck down behind a protective barrier before hand. I know it’s all about safety, but everyone wants to see the boom, not just the consequences! That’s pretty much what we’ve been up to, we also had a bunch of running, 2 Masaot (hike/journey), and as of this week guard duty and kitchen duty (fun!). I’d like to throw out a quick thank you to anyone who donates money to the IDF, Friends of the IDF, and/or any other programs. The Lone Soldiers on base got some cool and helpful gifts these past two weeks! Keep up to date with the news, some interesting things have been happening lately with the Iron Dome project functionally working. If you’ve emailed me lately, I apologize for not getting back to you, haven’t had much time lately… I will get back to you though! For the most frequent updates get at me on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/TheLoneSoldier
Saw a blackhawk fly overhead while we were in the field!
Kitchen Fun!
The Lone Soldier 
You guys only get all that cool shit, because tzanchanim are the pretty boys of the army, and are pussys.
Realize that I chose to approve this comment, unedited mind you, only for the sake of proving a point. Unless you’re a born and raised Israeli you’ve proven by your ignorance and lack of coherent grammar that we’re clearly a more intelligent bunch than your Givati crew. I won’t call names, I won’t play on stereotypes, I’m merely using what you’ve provided me to come to the logical conclusion that you’ve made a terrible mistake attempting to offend me… On my own blog no less?
My advice to you, next time you’d like to try making a pathetic attempt at “attacking” me on my own blog, at the very least, use factual information and some proper English. Thank you, goodbye and have fun scurrying on your merry way back to your beautiful base of tents.
i’d like to share a message with ya, from one chayal to another. Have an email or other direct means of communication?
yes of course. send me a quick email at Admin@TheLoneSoldier.com I have a couple days off so I should be able to get back to you pretty quickly.
This is a thing I must do more research into, thank you for the posting.