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In the coming weeks, the IDF Technology & Logistical Corps of the Ground Forces Division will being a pilot program to determine the next generation madei bet (work uniform). The decision on the pilot stems from a desire to improve the operational, comfort, visibility and representativeness of IDF soldiers and commanders in regular and reserve service.
The new work clothes that will be tested in the framework of the pilot will be speckled. The uniform is made of fabrics that are manufactured using advanced technologies with breathing and evaporation effect, and are characterized by improved, operational and representation. This is an opportunity to improve the quality of the IDF work clothes by adapting the response to the operational needs and using new and advanced technological capabilities from the textile world.
The decision to move to colored work clothes stems from operational considerations and is based on compliance with camouflage simulations. The uniform includes ranks, the unit’s insignia and a combatant’s pin, which are affixed by a patch of Velcro.
The fabrics are comfortable, airy, lighter and durable over time, with features that allow work in places where an anti-static safety standard is required.
As part of the pilot, which will begin in June and will continue for about a month, 330 personnel serving in compulsory duty, will participate in a variety of units and functions, operating in different activity profiles.
The pilot will examine two shirt cuts, three types of camouflage spotting and a uniform trouser frame that includes built-in trouser rubber bands where they meet the boot.
Each pilot will receive two sets of mottled uniforms. The soldiers will move in uniform in the unit alone, not out of the base.
The pilot will examine: the comfort of the sector, the functionality of the uniform, the location of the pockets, their size and the extent of their necessity, and the suitability of the sector to the various activities.
The final decision regarding the acquisition of these uniforms in the IDF will be made after the pilot is carried out, at the end of which lessons will be learned.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: IDF Spokesman Unit)
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why is this ‘Yeshiva news”?
Now it will be harder for the peleg reshaim to find and persecute our soldiers.
Why we should worry? The armies with the fanciest uniforms offer perform poorly (i.e. lose the war) to the slobs. Think World War II (the Germans drew rings around the Americans and British and Russians, and the war ended up with Berlin in flames and occupied). The Vietnamese dressed like a bunch of pesasant, and note that the war did not end with the Communists fleeing Hanoi. The Americans and allies have uniforms that put our enemies to shame in what is often called, only half in jest, the “forever war”.
yungerman, is the weather yeshiva news? What about US Politics? Or how about reading about traffic accidents affecting non-Jews? Please consider some mussar