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The Objective Standard
January 4, 2018
Believing that Stark simply had gotten lost, his party, which included his brother, signaled their location by firing into the air. Thus ... Colonel Stark took command of Reed's regiment, further augmenting his own force, which already was the largest on the ground that day. Stark's ... When they finished, “Col.
Premium Times
November 20, 2017
Those elevated to the rank of One Star Generals (Brigadier Generals) include A. Israel, C.O. Ekulide of Defence Headquarters, S.O. Olowolayemo, J.T. ... It is like saying that Buhari also determines promotion in the Police, Navy, Air Force, NDLEA, etc when we have the Police Service Commission, etc thatÃÂ ...
Jewish Chronicle
November 17, 2017
Lieutenant Colonel Oshrat Bachar is an army careerist who is presently the Chief of Staff's deputy adviser for gender affairs, and Israel's first female ... In 1996 there was the famous case of Alice Miller, who held a civilian pilot's licence but was unable to take the air force training exams on grounds of gender.
The Independent
October 5, 2017
The Russian air force arrived in Syria two years ago this week to save President Bashar al-Assad and his army. ... The death of Lieutenant General Valery Asapov in the suburbs of Deir Ezzor as he assisted Syrian commanders in their recapture of the city – surrounded by Isis for three years, its civilianÃÂ ...
Task & Purpose
September 13, 2017
Col. Daniel Wilson was convicted by a military jury on 23 specifications, including sexually abusing a minor and conduct unbecoming an officer and a ... A woman named Becky, claiming to be Wilson's sister, reached out to Task & Purpose following the publication of our initial story on the colonel'sÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 9, 2017
US President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Jan. ... Col. Joel Rayburn, who serves as the NSC director on Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Syria, is an army intelligence officer who has written the US military's official account of the Iraq war, as well as theÃÂ ...
Haaretz
August 18, 2015
... the eponymous Afek course, which is taken by prospective lieutenant colonels, at the IDF Staff and Command College. Before that Afek served in many capacities in the military prosecutor's office, including as deputy MAG, as IDF legal adviser on the West Bank, and as counsel for the Israel Air Force.
Slate Magazine
October 11, 2012
According to the IDF, women make up 33 percent of the whole armed forces; female officers with the rank of colonel grew by 100 percent in the past 13 years, from 2 percent of all colonels in 1999 to 4 percent today; and the share of female officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel has grown by 70 percentÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
September 17, 2016
Col. Nguyen Tomb — or “Toon” — is one of the names immortalized in military aviation, like Baron von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker.
Haaretz
March 27, 2016
The colonel's feats during the war inspired Germans and the ... promotion to lieutenant colonel — and operational control of Hitler's SS SpecialÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
October 11, 2012
... and the share of female officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel has ... from 7.3 percent of all lieutenant colonels in 1999 to 12.5 percent today. .... his post as chief rabbi of the Israel Air Force because the IDF would notÃÂ ...
Haaretz
June 1, 2012
Cut to an Israeli military base: Col. ... lauded its special effects, but faulted it for reducing the Israeli colonel's war aims to a personal vendetta.
Haaretz
April 25, 2012
We received word from his proxy, a lieutenant colonel, that what we had ... Don't bring us explainers, all sorts of lieutenant colonels who will tellÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 23, 2012
The colonel was questioned under caution by the Israel Police in 2007 and retracted some ... George's has denied all the colonel's allegations.
CNN
March 19, 2017
Late last year, IDF troops operating in the disputed Golan region came under fire from militants of the ISIS affiliate Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, Israeli military spokesman Lt.
TheTower.org
February 22, 2017
Lebanese and Syrian media reports claim that Israel's Air Force carried out an overnight strike on Hezbollah-related targets near Syria's capital Damascus last night.
http://hamodia.com
February 21, 2017
Grossman was laying out the "ops" - combat operation plans - for Steven Pressfield's oral history of the Six-Day War, The Lion's Gate.
DefenseNews.com
February 21, 2017
IDF SOUTHERN COMMAND FIRES CENTER, BEERSHEBA, Israel - From this new two-story command center in southern Israel, a colonel from the Israel Defense Forces' Artillery Corps is responsible for orchestrating firepower from among air, sea and landÃÂ ...
World Israel News
February 6, 2017
The Israel Air Force targeted three more Hamas posts in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday evening, in response to this morning's rocket attack as well as to a shooting attack on an IDF patrol operating near the Gaza Strip's southern border.
IsraCast
December 18, 2016
All systems are go for Israel's Air Force to start operational training on their F-35s, touted to be the top fighter-bomber in the world.
DefenseNews.com
December 8, 2016
12 receipt of its first pair of F-35I Adir (Awesome) fighters caps nearly a decade of planning, and that's all before a single Israel Air Force pilot has actually taken to the skies in its new stealth weapon. ... Col. Asaf, the deputy commander of the ...
IHS Jane's 360
November 10, 2016
Lieutenant Colonel A (full name withheld for security reasons), the commander of the IAF's 'First UAV Squadron', told IHS Jane's that the Israeli Navy sit in joint operations cabins at his unit's headquarters at Palmachim Air Base, south of Tel Aviv ...
Jewish Link of New Jersey
October 6, 2016
(JPost.com) An Israel Air Force pilot was killed during a crash landing of an F-16I jet fighter jet in southern Israel on Wednesday evening.
Al-Arabiya
September 14, 2016
Israel's air force hit the Hamas-run Gaza Strip early Thursday after Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel, the military said.
War on the Rocks
September 13, 2016
Lt. Col. Ron Tira (res.) is the author of The Nature of War: Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military Effectiveness as well as other books and publications on policy, strategy, warfare and the Middle East.
Huffington Post
July 18, 2016
One IDF officer, Lieutenant Colonel Yoni Netanyahu, brother of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and three hostages were killed.
Huffington Post
July 18, 2016
One IDF officer, Lieutenant Colonel Yoni Netanyahu, brother of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and three hostages were killed.
Globes
July 6, 2016
David's Sling has already been delivered to the Israel air force, ahead of the declaration of its announcement of the system, designed to intercept missiles and heavy rockets, as operational.
Haaretz
July 4, 2016
Shamir, the son of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and a onetime pilot in the Israel Air Force who retired with the rank of colonel, has served as IAI chairman before, from 2005 to 2011. Aharonovitch also previously served as tourism minister and ...
Globes
June 23, 2016
Lieutenant Col. Yotam has been an Israeli air force combat pilot for 19 years. During this time, his Netz (Hawk) squadron of outmoded F-16A planes has been closed down, and he has overseen the start of a new squadron, which has been given the nameÃÂ ...
Tablet Magazine
June 19, 2016
In 1974, 20-year-old Ilan Ramon, a recent graduate of the IDF flight school who would go on to become Israel's first astronaut, bought a Steinway piano that had once had its home in Germany during World War II.
Flightglobal
May 31, 2016
Israel's air force has been briefed on the status of the US Air Force's in-development Boeing KC-46A tanker, and has an immediate request for at least two examples.
Jewish Link of New Jersey
May 26, 2016
For Rona Anhalt of Englewood, the "blown away" moment of the recent FIDF mission was Shabbat morning in the Krakow Synagogue when survivor Ed Mosberg, 90, was called up to the bimah by IDF cantorial superstar Colonel Shai Abramson, together with ...
Task & Purpose
May 21, 2016
This documentary details the role of WWII veterans (many of them American) in the early days of Israel's air force. The United ... Gene Hackman plays a retired Marine colonel whose son was listed as missing in action in Vietnam in 1972. He believes his ...
The Economist
May 19, 2016
The upshot is a reshuffling of the cards in modern warfare, says Yiftah Shapir, a weapons expert at Tel Aviv University and a former lieutenant colonel in Israel's air force. Any side that begins with a technological advantage will see it erode quickly ...
The Jewish Voice
May 11, 2016
In response, Israel Air Force aircraft targeted a Hamas post in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced. ... "The repeated attacks against the IDF activities to locate and destroy cross border tunnels will not be tolerated," said IDF Spokesman Lt.
Jewish Journal
May 4, 2016
Israel Air Force warplanes struck five targets near the Gazan border town of Rafah Wednesday evening, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed in statements on Twitter.
Jewish Journal
May 4, 2016
Israel Air Force warplanes struck five targets near the Gazan border town of Rafah Wednesday evening, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed in statements on Twitter.
International Business Times
March 11, 2016
Israel's air force plans to double its contingent of Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicles by the end of the year, Defense News reported Thursday, citing the military branch's Hebrew-language magazine.
DefenseNews.com
March 10, 2016
TEL AVIV - The Israel Air Force (IAF) plans to double its force of Heron TP UAVs by the end of 2016 along with the missions entrusted to the strategic, combat-capable system, according to the service's official Hebrew-language monthly magazine.
Analisi Difesa
March 2, 2016
Ad affermarlo, citando fonti governative e militari, sono alcuni organi di stampa di Gerusalemme, secondo i quali la Heyl Ha'Avir/Israel Air Force vorrebbe dotarsi, almeno in parziale alternativa, di nuovi caccia multiruolo Boeing F-15I "Raam" da ...
Chicago Tribune
January 27, 2016
... William C. McCool, pilot; Michael P. Anderson, payload commander; David M. Brown, mission specialist 1; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist 2; Laurel Blair Salton Clark, mission specialist 4; Ilan Ramon, payload specialist 1; and Israel Air Force Col.
MyTechBits
January 24, 2016
"No injuries have been reported", IDF Spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner wrote on Twitter. No injuries or damage were reported from the rocket fired Sunday evening and aimed at Israeli communities on the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
DefenseNews.com
January 7, 2016
The plan prescribes closing down two active duty divisions, three command posts of artillery battalions, and retiring older F-16 Barak fighters as the Israel Air Force transitions into deployment of F-35Is. Contrary to local media reports, the officer ...
Al-Arabiya
December 3, 2015
On Wednesday, U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren said the new force would likely amount to 100, an increase over the 50 announced previously.
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