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By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau BALADIA CITY, Israel – National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen could one day exercise at a state-of-the-art urban warfare training center here. From a distance, the National Urban Training Center (NUTC) looks like a bustling desert town. But it’s a purpose-built mock-up on a real-life scale designed as a training ground for military […]
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Editor’s Note: A previous article detailing LTG Blum’s trip to Masada in Israel came from the National Guard news. This is another of three articles in the On Guard about the trip. By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau HAIFA, Israel – Studying how to respond to sustained terrorist attacks against a U.S. city, National Guard leaders visited Haifa, which […]
Read moreServices set for Chicago soldier Bitton who died in Iraq By Robert Mitchum and Mary Owen | Tribune reporter February 25, 2008 Services for Cpl. Albert Bitton, a 20-year-old Chicago Army medic who died last week in Iraq, have been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at a Chicago synagogue, his family said. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m […]
Read moreMy novel MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL is a fictionalized account of my first nine weeks as a new army officer’s wife in the spring of 1970. The novel has been nominated as a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. You can download the first few pages for free at the link below. And if you have […]
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All the information you need to order Passover rations and seder kits. Includes NSN numbers and kit contents. Continue reading
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Editor’s Note: I’m sure LTG Blum would find many of his American Jewish Soldiers feel the same way about Masada as their Israeli counterparts. At Masada, a glimpse into the Israeli soul By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau MASADA, Israel – This ancient fort atop a Judean Desert butte 1,300-feet above the Dead Sea offers a glimpse into […]
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A Prayer for the Soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces in English, Hebrew, and transliterated. Prayer for Israeli Defense Forces.rtf (Text file, 12K)
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