Hay guys so I never really got this blogging thing I guess with Facebook Skype etc, I found it pretty useless.
So as I said before my name is Zane I am 19 from Whangarei New Zealand, but I am also a soldier in the Israeli military. I aint going to go over in detail the last few months in the army as one I cant remember it all to well and two I don't wanna bore you out of your mind.
Basically I was enlisted on may 4th from the office in Tiberius from there I was taken to Bakum. Bakum is a huge base were every soldier gets converted from civilian to uniformed trooper. ask any Israeli and everybody knows and has heard of Bakum. it is as much apart of Israeli culture as humus. So basically we were in a base called michve allon (I hope I wrote that correctly) here for 3 months we learned Hebrew and did useless crap it was like jail, except you get to go home every weekend if you behaved. it so a stupid place and as far as I care a waste of army money.
So were are we thats right well now I finished that crap place (yeah) and so everybody is now doing there proper service, I got sent to Nahal, in English Nahal is an acronym for pioneering fighting youth. In the past Nahal was basically for kibbutzim like me (kibbutznik is the Israeli name for people who live on a kibbutz I will explain what a kibbutz is latter on) and they combined army service with farm work and social work. now days Nahal is split in two with Gadna Gadna is Nahal but comes under the education corps they help Israeli kids get ready for the army and they also do social work for the community and they run a week course for kids from overseas who want to see what the army is like (this course is a joke really as the speak English to you)
Then there is normal Nahal the infantry brigade. in this brigade we have the fighters who are the infantry men. and the jobniks, but jobnik is hard to explain was it also has units like mine who are direct combat support. There is your typical jobnik one who drinks coffee all day in an air conditioned office starts work at 9 goes home at 4 everyday. there are some who stay on base. than the ones like me who in american terms could be classed as specialists. we are the communications guys weapons technicians mechanics etc.
I am a mechanic I work on jeeps hummers trucks and cars and repair them and fit them ready for war (at least I will when I do the damn course soon) we are direct combat support with out working cars etc the army doesn't work. we to do 9-4 work days when there is no war but we sleep on base and do guard duty. but we get to go home with our weapons. I haven't yet due to some idiots (but I cant say that on here). we are also able to when there is war enter the battlefield with the fighters. and we go to the forward bases.
So we are respected at least for not being lazy Jobniks. So yeah the Nahal our color, ( stupid American spelling computer spell check) our berets are lime green with the logo of our jobs like mine is the heimush which is a cog surrounded by olive leaves with a flaming sword in the middle. and my unit tag is Nahal and is green with a sickle showing the past Nahal of kibbutzniks and arrows in the shape of wings. wings mean striving for excellence and the multicolor arrows that make up the wing represent the divisions in the Nahal like the 932 or he 50 etc. and our shoes are red( I don't have mine yet as they did not have my size in stock)
so all this shows we are Nahal's mechanics givati golani everybody has there own and they have there own colors but Nahals is the best.
but I am going to end it here as I need to sleep so latter people
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