From Paratrooper to Raven
Had I failed the second gibush I would have been assigned to one of the regular…
A Paratrooper is Born
We couldn’t stop hugging each other, we couldn’t stop smiling and laughing and loving the…
The Red Beret
I can’t remember exactly when it happened but there was a creeping sensation among us…
Urban Warfare Training
Haim was shooting into the house when he called me over “number two to me!”…
La Sha B
This was the real deal, this was the stuff of movies, of commandos, of live…
Eli
The most memorable thing about guard duty had been the loss of Oran. The constant…
The Breaking of a Soldier
In the same way that the triumph of spirit over adversity was a beautiful thing…
Guarding
We all returned from the course with smiles on our beaming faces. We had silver…
The Bad Jump
You’d think that after the first jump the worries about parachuting would have disappeared but…
Into the Slipstream
The last man on guard was Elisha who woke us up at four a.m., in…