Property of Tzahal

Today was the day when we would stop being citizens of Israel and finally become soldiers and property of Tzahal. This meant that we had to go to the bacum in order to become soldiers, get injections and other soldierly things.
The day started at 7:00, when we all went from the kibbutz to Tiberius for another meeting with the Tzav Reshon people. Luckily I was not called and only a few people were.
From there, we went to the Bacum located in Tel Hashomar, Tel Aviv. This is where every teenager in Israel about to become a soldier goes.
Tel Hashomar is just like another military base, with guards, soldiers and Mifacedet. There are many trailer style buildings and real structures with pictures of Soldiers. We were called off the bus and had to stand in two lines. There we handed in our Tiudat Ziut (or ID cards) and followed the Mifacedet to a dining hall, where we were served lunch. I am always impressed with the amount of power Garin Tzabar has because they were able to "reserve" the Bacum just for us and no one else.
After lunch, we were led to a video screen, where we saw a promotional video of some of the units in the army. From there we were led into a big hall, where we were told to wait our turns.
The Next part of the Bacum reminded me a lot of a police station. We were led to a room, where two soldiers sat behind a desk taking pictures of us. One picture was a regular picture of our face. The second picture was a full body shot, from the side. Then we were led to a room, where soldiers took pictures of our teeth. Then we were led to a fingerprint room, where our finger prints and palm prints were taken on a computer. We were then led to another room, where a MRI/dentist type of machine took an x-ray of our mouth. The whole reason why the army is so interested in our mouth and fingerprints is because if something (G-d forbid) goes wrong, at least the army can identify us with the pictures and x-rays.
After the police part of the Bacum was over, we were led to the questionnaire part of the Bacum.
Here we were given a chart with all our medical information. We then had a quick questionnaire part where we were questioned about our bank accounts and again (G-d Forbid) something should happen to us, who do we leave al our money too.
The final part of the Bacum was the medical part.
Here, doctors gave us two shot (one for tetanus and one for melengitus.) the next part was taking a blood sample for DNA reasons.
From the medical part, we were given our shlat. The shlat is a card that says now you are in the army and that if you want to take a bus anywhere in the country, it will only be 9 shekels (a big help because I pay 39, one way, to go to Jerusalem.) We were also given our dog tags. On the dog tags our written our name and our new name (a numerical number.)
The only thing we weren’t given at the bacum was our uniforms. The reason for this is because every branch of the army has their own uniforms. The infantry and tanks are given dark green and the navy and air force are given light green. The other difference is the boots. Some unit get red boots and some get black. For this reason, that we don’t know where we are going yet, we weren’t given our uniforms.
However, all in all, it was a great day and now I am part of the Israeli Army. Now there is no going back.