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Subject:
The Israeli system
ZealousZionist
12/16/2003 4:16:13 PM
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The Israeli Army operates on a regimental system, although its regiments are operational units called brigades.
A recruit to the Golani infantry brigade, for example, will join one of three trainee companies to begin 25 weeks basic training (14 stage A and 11 stage B) at the Golani Brigade basic training center.
After basic training is completed, each company, still intact though now somewhat diminished in number due to drop outs, will go to one of the Golani Brigade's three operational battalions. While with the battalion, the company will undergo a series of four month operational deployments along the Lebanon border or in the occupied territories, with four month training cycles interspersed in between. That is the rythem of an Israeli unit - four months op duty, four months training, four months ops, four months training, etc...
The training cycle begins with individual training and progresses through squad, platoon, company, battalion and culminating in a large brigade exercise.
After having gone through one complete operational duty cycle and one training cycle,, the rifle company, still with its original members, will go to a three month squad leaders course. At the end of this NCO course, after 17 months service togethher, the company will be deemed to have completed its "maslul" training program, and will be broken up.
The best soldiers of the company will become NCO cadre for a new trainee company about to begin its own "maslul" with basic training. More mediocre soldiers will join the Battalion weapons company in the private soldier capacity, even though they hold the rank of sergeant, having graduated from the squad leader's course. The weapons company consists of an AT platoon (with Gill missiles that are equivalent to the Javelin) a recce platoon and a mortar platoon. The best marksmen in this group might also be sent to sniper's course to serve as battalion snipers.
Of the best and brightest who went to serve as cadre for a new company of recruits, the ones who excell as NCOs are chosen to attend the 6 month officer's training course. About 30% of aspiring officers complete that course, but that is far too high a number for the limited platoon leader slots back in the Golani Brigade. So the Brigade will pick and choose the best of the newly minted lieutenants to bring back to serve in Golani as young officers. The lower achieving young officers of Golani origin will not return to the Brigade, and will be posted to staff or training functions throughout the army.
Thus, the IDF has a de facto regimental system in which promotion is based on merit and soldiers at each level are assessed on quality of performance to allow the advancement of only the best and brightest.
It's a system that works pretty well |
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