Once you have finished training, the regular soldier goes to cav. Cav is usually guarding the border with Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan or any other boarder that exists.
However, since I am not a regular soldier, instead of going straight to the boarder, we go to courses.
The courses are varied and included many things such as navigation, bomb explosive training, counter terrorists and Jump school.
This week, we started navigation. It started with us learning how to read a map, in a classroom, and then going into the field as a large group and navigating from point to point.
At the end of the week, we were navigating without a map and also with only one other person. We would spend each morning and most of the day learning the path we needed to take and then at night, we would walk it. Along our path, there were points we needed to reach. Once we reached a point, we had to write down the code words we found and bring them back. While we didn’t sleep much during the week, it did feel like a big scavenger hunt and a lot of fun.
Another high light of the week was that we became a tzevet. Up until now, we have been a group, known as group 3. Now that we are done with training, we are considered a tzevet or a group. While there is no difference really, we now wear these hats that have our tzevet name (the name of the tzevet is the name of your mm, 2nd in command. our name is tzevet kimchi.) and are now looked at as a group not to be messed with, and not just some trainees.
Other highlights:
1: We broke distance with everyone and now we are only left with a Samal and the mm. We no longer have a commander above us, so while we now have more responsibility, we also have more freedom
2: we got a pakal coffee (this is considered a big reward in the army)
3: next week we are leaving the training base and are going to the gadsar or the sf base in the north for a week and getting new stuff.
4: we are going to bomb school in two weeks, in Eilat. I cannot wait to start blowing stuff up :)
