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The Chief of Staff has scheduled a major exercise despite the corona, reservists will be absent: "Who wants to be infected?"
Despite warnings from medical officials and senior officers, Kochavi decided to hold the General Staff exercise to the extent of less than a third of the original plan, on the grounds that no one had done so since taking office and adhering to the guidelines. However, soldiers and officers asked not to report for training and economic reasons.
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Amir Bohbot
Monday, 19 October 2020, 20:28
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In the video: IDF training in the shadow of the corona (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi decided at the last minute to hold a large-scale General Staff exercise with the participation of the various headquarters.
This is despite warnings from IDF medical officials and senior officers fearing a coronary heart attack among participants.
Chief of Staff Kochavi has three different status assessments ahead of the exercise, which is scheduled to take place soon, and discusses the implications of the exercise and its preparation for it. said the discussions that "we hear for some time mainly reservist said calls to cancel the exercise." However, he said, because of "financial problems and contagion."
In a conversation the stars with reservists ahead of the exercise, he said that the training will take place even at the cost of 1,000 become infected. Senior reserve officers criticized the chief of staff's remarks, arguing that it would have been better if he had worded it differently.
Indeed, some time later commanders in the units participating in the exercise began to receive notices and requests from reservists to refrain from enforcing the draft order for various reasons.
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"There are quite a few officers and soldiers who simply will not come."
Soldiers in training during the Corona (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
A military source in the 162nd Division, a regular armored division subordinate to the Southern Command that is due to participate in the exercise, explained in a conversation with Walla!
NEWS The reserve soldiers' apprehension of attending the same training, and described a lack of clarity in the IDF's conduct
.
Who wants to be infected and then be isolated?
Some of the reservists are married people with children.
It is also not clear to us what happens when a reservist becomes infected.
Is he sent home for isolation?
"The IDF takes care of him? How? Does he get reserve days until he recovers? I know there are officers who have asked for a commitment to reserve days for the entire period if they are forced into solitary confinement," he said.
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A reserve officer who serves as a staff officer at the headquarters said that "there are quite a few officers and soldiers who simply will not come. Some announced orally and some by text messages."
He said, "Brigade commanders and unit commanders asked the commanders to put pressure on those who received conscription orders to come. What do they expect a reserve soldier to say to the workplace or in the family cell (if he gets infected - AB).
It is not really clear what is happening, and what the IDF is doing to "prevent contagion."
Another reserve officer who is due to take part in the exercise even said that the chief of staff's decision would contribute in the long run to raising morbidity. "Everyone is afraid of low turnout percentages.
Most of the soldiers who will have problems are related to the 162nd Division and I justify them. "
"The training will also take place at a cost of 1,000 contagious."
Stars in dialogue with fighters, January (Photo: IDF Spokesman)
Walla!
NEWS It was learned that the chief of staff, in closed conversations, justified his decision to conduct the exercise by saying that for more than a year there had been no exercise of the IDF headquarters, which includes the High Command and the various arms, as well as the Southern Command, the Northern Command and the General Staff Operations Division. Therefore, Kochavi decided that the exercise would indeed take place, but would be held with a smaller participation than planned, under controlled management and strict enforcement of the corona procedures in the IDF.
In an effort to reduce the possibility of infection as much as possible, Kochavi explained that the exercise, which also includes the 162nd Division exercise under the command of Brigadier General Saar Tzur, will be conducted under significant cuts and will eventually include less than a third of the original force order to maintain buffering and isolation conditions. Among the forces. The chief of staff also decided to shorten the exercise by a few days.
In one of Kochavi's status assessments, he noted that since taking office, the IDF has promoted substantial changes, which were not practiced in preparation for a war scenario. These changes include the implementation of the "fire circle" - the digital system aimed at improving interfaces between commanders and combatants in the field. Additional and operational processes.
"The IDF must maintain its readiness for war"
Meanwhile, this week will hold another hearing superstars on whether you should cancel the employment operational reserve battalion next month and in December, the background incidence in the general society and units of the IDF.
The IDF Spokesman said that the army "to preserve and improve the readiness for war, even at the risk management era The IDF does not have the privilege of not being ready all the time.
"Special health procedures were adapted for the exercise, and the chief of staff emphasized that it must be observed while fully adhering to the procedures for maintaining the health of the participants."
In response to the Chief of Staff's statement that the exercise would also take place at a cost of 1,000 contagious, the IDF Spokesman said that "the things said were intended to emphasize the importance of the exercise."
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