Mixed Unit - Lions of Jordan (2018): Season 1, Episode 10 - Episode #1.10 - full transcript
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Tonight we are going
to make an arrest in Tayasir.
This is our company's sector.
And this is our platoon's area of interest.
Our target is here.
We've got a back entrance
inside a yard
and the front entrance right here.
As far as we know,
based on the photographs,
there's a hallway here.
That hallway is one of our potential
escape routes.
We're going to station two units
along the escape route.
We'll chase him down, flank and capture him.
Got it?
Head count.
Head count.
Magazines in.
Confirm safety.
Commander 1, this is Deputy 2.
Permission to advance.
Commander 1, this is Command.
Quiet, secure movement
towards the populated area.
Report when you're ready. Out.
It's been three months
since we completed basic training.
We finished our training
and were sent out into the field.
Can I see some ID, please?
It's a new phase in our life.
We've finally entered
actual combat,
we're finally doing something
instead of just training all day.
Thank you.
We do checkpoints, patrols,
operational missions.
We train all day.
We've developed a field routine.
Tomorrow we'll be going on our first arrest.
Honestly, I feel like I've found my place here.
I like the army. I'm having fun.
But others ended up
in a totally different place.
Avigail and I just completed
our preparation for squad commander training.
We've left the rest of the platoon behind
and we're coming back to base
to wait for training to start.
Hi there!
What's up?
-How are you? -Hello, hello.
I saw you in my dreams, you know.
What's up, man?
So what's up? How are you guys?
Most importantly, how's the food?
Wow.
-Wow, you won't believe the food.
Sis, it's the best food
I've eaten in the army.
If you want a schnitzel, you take one.
If you want another one,
go ahead.
And how was the prep in general?
Some things were really great.
We had panels
on the nature of a field commander
as opposed to a basic training commander.
They work on helping you
become a commander,
so when you finally end up in front of a squad
you won't start stuttering.
Remember when you thought
you'd be a battalion commander?
Yes.
-"I'm going to be a battalion commander."
Yes, I was sure I was going to enlist
and from there go into a military career.
When people asked,
"What do you want to study in university?"
I said, "Nothing. I'm gonna stay in the army."
You know I've waited my whole life
for this basic training.
I came to it incredibly motivated.
My U-formation isn't proportional
to the number of people in our platoon.
Oh, man. You were such a geek!
Yeah, but it's more than that.
See that hole?
Fill it up.
It's taking initiative.
Why are you staring at me?
Leave it.
Go back to your place.
I can't do it any other way.
You know me.
Stand at attention to receive the commanders.
Attention!
The fitness test isn't about being in shape.
It's about attitude.
Even when things got so hard
that I wanted to die,
I didn't give up.
I went all out
to pass these tests.
Breathe. Open up.
I was proud of myself.
It took a lot of willpower to finish
and say, "Alright, I'm a fighter."
Na'ama, Negev operator.
Holy shit!
I challenged myself
every step of the way.
I knew where I wanted to end up.
I wanted to be a commander.
I want to be a commander
because it'll teach me a lot
about myself and about the profession.
It'll make me even more of a professional.
But I used to think
that combat duty was everything...
And you don't anymore?
Sure I don't.
After two years and eight months,
I won't stay here a second longer.
I'll do it all
and I'll do it well,
and I'll give it my all,
but it's taking too much of my energy.
Right now I want to say, "Okay,
I'll do the two years and eight months,
"I'll do my absolute best,
"but when I'm done, I'm done."
I won't stay on.
-For me it's the other way around.
I have more fun here
than at home on the weekends.
I like the drills and the missions,
even though I complained to Ophir
during the company drill,
with tears in my eyes,
"No more! My feet hurt!"
After that I think about it
and I just want more.
Three years from now
I do see myself as a deputy.
God willing...
-In the infantry. -Yeah.
I'd like us to take a moment
and remember the old Karina.
We have to go to the seamstress on Friday.
We have to.
No, Mom. It's the pants that are big,
not me.
When I enlisted,
I had no idea where I was headed.
Remember the drama she put us through?
"Excuse me, Commander.
I'm very sorry, but do you really think
"I'm not going to put on makeup?"
I can't walk around like this,
with all due...
I'm sorry, but you're a fighter,
you don't get to put on makeup.
I didn't know how to handle the idea
that I couldn't do whatever I wanted.
I want to eat sushi,
I want to hang out with my friends,
I want to feel pretty.
I swear, I'm the hottest girl here.
Listen, I'll slap you across the face.
Calm down.
I can pass it.
Getting into shape
and passing the tests
was so hard at first.
I can't run anymore.
It hurts.
-Sit down. Sit. -Fall backwards.
At a certain point
I just wanted to get up and leave.
Why are you crying?
Because I can't do this anymore.
It's too much.
It's only going to get harder,
not easier.
I can't.
My brain is dead.
I'm in pain.
That's the way it is.
-I want to go to bed and sleep for eight hours.
Okay.
Then you can drop out of combat training
and go sleep as much as you like
as... I don't know. A desk jockey.
Remember how we had to slap you around
to keep you from considering
dropping out of combat training?
I don't want to stay.
What do you mean?
It's hard. It's just hard.
Of course it's hard, Karina.
-Get over it.
It's a process. You don't...
You can't get out of the car
and immediately charge.
"Allah Hu Akbar."
What are you talking about?
Pinky swear.
On our friendship.
-On our...
I want this!
-Hey! It's locked!
Come on, Karina.
-Stop!
If you had dropped out,
where do you think you'd be?
Where would we have found Karina
four months later?
On the home front,
making coffee for my commander.
Sure you'd be making coffee.
The commander would be making you coffee.
11, 12, 13...
Alright, I couldn't actually see myself
as a desk jockey.
Alright, Karina, you can do this!
Good job!
I picked myself up
and fought for it.
Excellent, excellent.
I made it!
-You're amazing.
It feels like victory.
One, two...
-Attention!
I see myself differently now.
I've decided to give it to Karina,
because I see how much you've changed.
I feel like I've matured
over these past eight months.
I'm not that same stupid girl...
-For sure. For sure.
I'm not the same stupid, immature...
I don't know what else I was.
Except for that time you said,
"If you don't put me in the command platoon,
"I'm going home."
When the platoons were disbanded,
I really wanted to get into
the command platoon.
We've reached the end of an era.
We'll be getting into formation as a company,
and the platoons will be redistributed.
These are the people
who've been selected for the command platoon.
Almog Gibli,
Avigail Kapelner, Na'ama Ulman.
When the company commander
didn't read my name,
I felt this was it.
That's it.
There was no reason for me to stay.
I don't want anything
to do with this place.
Go wash your face.
-I don't want to be here.
You've destroyed my motivation.
I packed my bag.
I didn't want to stay in the battalion
for another second.
I told myself that if I wasn't immediately
selected for squad commander training,
I didn't want to be there.
What's up, Karina?
And then Commander Nehorai
sat me down for a talk.
What's the difference
between a first-selection squad commander,
who was in the command platoon,
and a squad commander who was selected later
and wasn't in the command platoon?
Seeing it happen,
being told "No, you won't be there,"
it's like, "No."
Why? Because you aren't used
to hearing "no"?
As a commander,
you need to get used to hearing that.
And if up to this point
you've never heard the word "no",
this is where you learn to deal with it.
Move on.
If you prove yourself,
I'll make sure you're selected next time.
Now look, you'll be joining
the command platoon soon.
Listen, Yana and I have a plan.
Ophir will be the company commander,
and she and I will be her platoon commanders.
Yana said she'll leave at that point.
I want to be a deputy.
When I'm an officer,
when I'm a squad commander,
my goal
is to be like Ophir.
-"When I'm an officer."
If Ophir were to come to you now
and say, "Yana, I want you."
What would you say?
Cut, cut.
Lift your legs as high as you can.
You know when I felt that first spark?
Was it during the fitness test?
When she was demonstrating the drill.
I stood there and looked up at her
like this.
Except everyone got over it
after the test, and you still felt that way.
Arm to opposite leg.
Can we start each morning
with her demonstrations?
It's true that I had this crush on Ophir.
I didn't really know what to do about it.
What could I do?
Am I gonna say,
"Good morning, Platoon Commander.
"How was your night?"
I mean...
She'll delay my leave.
You forget how Yana chased after her.
"Please go on guard duty with me,
please go on guard duty with me."
She chased...
-"Guard duty!" -She chased her so hard.
So, Yana.
I didn't know how to get close to her.
Why did you want gate duty so badly?
I wanted to get to know the staff.
Is that wrong?
Is this your first gate duty?
-Yeah.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I will it, but I'll save it
for the next guard duty.
Remember how Ophir ran from me
at the guard post?
You could say that sobered me up.
The illusion was broken.
The illusion. Exactly.
I think it's like
how every kid has a crush on their teacher.
-Yes, exactly.
It was that.
-She was just...
She's still my role model.
She's proof that girls
can be combat soldiers, too.
She proved it to the boys, too.
I mean, during basic training,
especially in Platoon 3,
we used to fight all the time
over all sorts...
-With the boys.
All these things.
-With Moshe.
Over the fact that we're girls,
let's put it like that.
Have they changed at all?
The equipment is still an issue,
they fight over that,
but I mean... Platoon 3.
Do they fight over who should carry it,
or the idea that girls shouldn't?
Who should carry it.
-Who should carry it.
Lovely.
Insert magazine at an angle!
Remember how they were
at the beginning?
They lowered the standards
so that any girl can be a fighter if she wants.
Any girl.
Moshe, you're delusional.
They looked down on us,
and it drove me crazy.
Terrorist!
I was the best shot in the platoon.
Excellent. Good round.
But it wasn't good enough for Moshe.
Women can't be combat soldiers.
They absolutely can't.
There's no such thing
as a female combat soldier.
In short, we're on cleaning duty today,
and the kitchen here is dirty. Just saying.
I wanted to hit him.
Yeah, men are stronger,
but that doesn't mean
we can't be combat soldiers
and it doesn't mean...
-Fine.
It says nothing about us.
Platoon 3, start walking.
But we proved to them
time and again
that we're just as good as they are.
Exactly.
-Maybe even better.
True.
Remember our diversion
during the two-sided drill?
Wow, that was great.
You have two casualties on your force.
End of drill!
I killed them.
You're being tested not as individuals,
but as a squad.
What about the squad test?
That was crazy.
I want to see a lot of attitude
and healthy competition.
Alright, show me some attitude, girls!
It's a competition, no?
Eye on the prize, eye on the prize.
Fine, the boys are stronger than us,
physically.
Me, you...
But they can't beat our teamwork.
They'll run while we cover them.
That's how we'll capture the hill.
The fact that we made good decisions
in the moment is proof
of the kind of fighters we are.
One squad won,
and that squad is 3C.
It sucks that this sexism
didn't end with basic training.
While we were reinforcing in Samaria,
we were securing a major junction,
on the way to Nablus.
People saw me, a girl with a weapon,
with a ponytail,
with the whole thing...
they didn't know how to handle it.
Two girls standing.
-Cars actually stopped.
They looked at us like this,
through the window.
They looked at us in shock.
They didn't know what was happening.
The Palestinians.
Later, people who live in the area
came and asked me,
"What? What are you doing here?"
As in,
"What are you, specifically, doing here?"
It was unbelievable.
I was at a junction
with another girl
and then this religious guy
came from the settlement above us and said,
"If you're the ones here
then it's fine, you can leave."
How insulting.
-Seriously. People look at us
and think,
"If there's a girl here,
"we're better off with no one at all."
Like, we don't even need her.
We need girls in combat roles
just to show them that women are here,
that they have rights
and deserve to be a part of it all.
I absolutely believe that.
It's one of the reasons I'm here.
But listen, it's exhausting.
I've got two years left,
and I'm going to spend them
fighting for my values,
fighting for my identity.
Why do I have to carry the burden
of spreading the message
that women deserve equality?
Still, while you're here,
you have to do it.
And when you see your friends,
when you see all these things,
it does make you want to stay
and do it.
That's why it's still going on.
Oh my God,
if I didn't have you guys in basic training...
It would have been endless,
if you hadn't been with me
in basic training.
I know it's a cliche,
but I wouldn't be me
if we hadn't gone through
basic training together. -Totally.
Bags down, girls.
They don't need to stay on your back.
Lower them to the ground.
Do you know what "posers" are?
No.
-It's the ones who enlist as combat soldiers
and dip their boots
in a pile of sand
to make it look like
they've spent time in the field.
Let's all take a picture
of our feet.
Wow!
Karina, you've got a fallen eyelash.
Wish for them to be hot.
Ready?
-Yes, Commander Ada!
Good.
Go on, charge!
Now a loving photo.
No, wait!
Nice!
After a month in the field,
I fought with the company commander
and realized I didn't want
to stay in the battalion as a fighter.
I left to train as a vehicle mechanic,
and now I do maintenance
in the battalion.
I'm happy doing that.
Hey there, Butch.
Bro.
What's up, baby?
-Move.
Move.
You've got a cozy life, don't you?
How are you, babe?
I'm good, how are you?
Maintenance and all that crap.
We fix whatever you guys mess up.
Come have a smoke with me.
-Alright, let's go.
Come on.
You've got a great setup here, don't you?
Yeah, man. It's cool here.
Fighting with the company commander
gets you places.
If there's a car, we fix it.
If there isn't,
we just sit around and chill.
That's great, man.
It's the good life, man. Leave every Thursday,
spend every third weekend here.
How's the field?
Patrol, patrol, patrol, gate duty.
Patrol, patrol, patrol, pillbox duty.
Refreshing.
Look at where we are, man.
-Well, I'm happy, man.
Look at this dump.
We don't even show up on GPS.
Fine.
-When apps try to locate us, they crash.
Man, we're in the middle of nowhere,
but we've already gotten through
eight months in the army.
Look how fast they flew by.
Two more years, man.
Two years.
Looking back, man,
there are things...
I think about things I did and think,
"Why did I do that? What an idiot."
Almog, abandoning your weapon?
What's wrong with you?
You won't be here
if you can't be responsible for your weapon,
do you understand?
Yeah, I know. It was one hell of a goof.
A goof? You call that a goof?
Prepare yourself for one hell of a consequence.
Honestly, when I enlisted
I was the most spoiled kid in the world.
I couldn't handle being told what to do.
It drove me nuts.
I'm so tired of this.
Fuck everyone.
They can suck it.
Almog.
Almog.
Almog!
Honestly, we were all over Nehorai
from minute one.
We didn't like him.
Butch!
Remember when you were on strike
and Nehorai came
and started calling you,
"Butch! Butch!"
Butch?
Did he call me Butch?
Did you notice
everyone started calling me Butch?
Butch? Is that in Hebrew?
You're asking what it means?
-Yes.
A masculine girl.
You honestly don't know
why they call me Butch?
It went like this:
I said, "What do you think of the girls here?
"They're all butch. Yuck.
I wouldn't go near them."
Moshe said,
"You look like a butch girl."
And then the name stuck.
Butch!
Come here, you're standing trial.
Attention, Company Commander.
Do you know why you're here?
A lot of discipline issues.
Talking back.
We were stupid, man.
99 percent of the time.
But sometimes
they didn't do right by us, either.
Most of the time we were the problem.
For sure.
I was confined to base
over a ton of things in the beginning.
Another weekend here at the base.
This room looks big, doesn't it?
You have no idea how tiny it is.
Did you ever think
you wouldn't finish basic training?
Sure.
Before the talk with the battalion commander,
while I was in jail.
Eight days in jail.
I had a feeling
he'd send you to jail.
Is that cool?
Not good?
-Not very impressive.
I hope it'll make you understand.
It was a kick in the teeth.
Eventually it set me straight.
How has the army changed you?
How has it changed me?
In a ton of ways, man.
How I look at the things I do,
how I do them and when,
how I respond to different situations.
It changed my civilian life.
The way I behave at home.
It's more than just the army.
-Everyone's like that.
Sure. It makes you grow up.
Gives you a different perspective.
What about you, dumbass?
I'm great, man.
I do the grunt work,
I shut up,
I do more grunt work
and shut up as some more.
Living the dream.
-And go wild on Thursdays.
Living the dream.
-Absolutely, man.
Was there a moment during basic training
that almost broke you?
That made you say,
"I'm done, I want to run"?
Sure, man.
Every second Tuesday.
Every time I fought with someone I said,
"That's it, I'm leaving."
You have seven minutes
to fill in your personal questionnaires.
I don't wanna see anyone smoking
during this time.
I had a lot of discipline issues at first.
Is there a reason you're smoking?
I just lit it. For the smell.
I had anger issues.
I got into a lot of trouble with the commander.
Moshe, come here.
It's just going to be an hour's wait.
It won't.
-Look, he's coming.
Then Eliav, come quickly,
you motherfucker.
Shut up. No swearing.
I wasn't used
to doing what I was told.
You cussed out your friend's mother,
your friends.
Fine, that's between me and...
-Shut up, I'm talking.
How many times
did Commander Nehorai and I
go toe to toe?
Good luck to the guard.
Pick it up. -I'm going off duty.
-Pick it up. -I'm off duty now.
You'll be relieved soon.
You're on duty right now.
-Another hour? Fuck that.
Calm down, Moshe.
If I was a commander
and had to deal with a soldier like me,
I don't know how I'd do it.
Nehorai was really patient.
Come on, let's sit down and talk.
A person who lets himself off the hook,
never learns his actual limits.
The goal is to try.
It's important.
But the person who really made me stay
and finish basic training
was Ophir.
You need to be ready.
Even if it's hard,
even if you don't feel well,
even if you're in an emotional crisis.
She knew how to get me to keep going.
She never gave up on me.
We're looking forwards now.
Only forwards.
Ophir supported me
and believed in me every step of the way.
Honestly, I don't care what you were.
I care what you are now.
I think of this as a clean slate.
You're here now,
and you'll be the best you can be.
You'll be great. We'll help you.
She saw something no one else did.
Go, go. All the way, Moshe.
That's how she set me straight,
turned me into a real soldier.
Excellent. Excellent.
Seven,
eight...
Let's go!
Moshe, move it.
Good.
This structure builds you up.
Up twice, three times, four times.
It's important you don't give up.
Stand up, everyone.
She taught me to be a calmer person,
to take everything in proportion,
not to fight with myself so much,
not to fight with other people.
Come on, Moshe.
Take him down, Moshe!
Good, Moshe!
Stretcher to shoulder height.
It was a long, difficult road,
but it was worth it.
A person is a little of what he's born with
and a lot of what he makes of himself.
I consider this
a turning point in your life.
We've gotten older, man.
For real.
For real.
What was the best thing
about your enlistment?
Honestly?
You, you little...
We were such kids, man.
We'll be friends for life.
Brothers.
-Of course.
Where do you live again?
What's Kiryat Arba?
-It's Kiryat Arba.
What is it?
-Don't you know it?
Am I supposed to?
I feel like a pit bull.
One who doesn't care at all
till someone steps on his tail.
But your tail's been clipped.
I don't think they're taking this seriously.
They're slackers.
I offered.
I'm not sharing your sleeping bag, man.
-I offered.
Okay, we'll use it to cover up?
-Yes.
But we'll have to huddle close.
No problem, man.
Just, you know,
no... no moving.
Physically, I'm the big brother.
Absolutely, bro.
Alright, my brother.
Let me lay down on the dunes
Let the muses thunder on
Let me lay down with each stride...
What's a stride?
"With each stride."
I don't know what "stride" means.
In short, treat the IDF with pride, man.
-Yeah.
I'm very happy with the Lions.
I think it's the right place for me,
even though some rabbis
have spoken against co-ed service.
As a believer,
it's important for me to show
that you can continue to uphold your values
while serving alongside women.
There are a lot of advantages.
Women offer the kind of creative thinking
that men don't have.
Overall, it's a softer environment.
It's not as...
I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
Hey there, hero.
What's up, king?
-What's up?
How are you, man? You okay?
Come on, let's sit here.
How do you feel?
Where are you? What's up?
Listen, it's been tough.
It hasn't been easy.
Remember how I kept nagging them
for four months,
telling them that I don't want to be
with the Lions,
and no and no and no?
-Yeah.
In short, I got to Ground Forces HQ
after they told me
I'd been eliminated from the battalion.
I spoke to this major.
He asked if I wanted to join
the Haruv recon unit.
I heard "special forces" and my eyes lit up.
That's all I ever wanted, man.
-Right.
You know that getting into special forces
was my dream, Yair.
Before my enlistment I fought
the army for months to get there.
I haven't spent my life dreaming
of being in a co-ed battalion.
You won't let your soul be at peace.
Of course I won't.
If they gave me a chance...
Then keep going.
What can I say?
That's all I can do.
Seriously.
-But honey,
the army doesn't do requests.
-You have to accept it.
Okay.
-Any father would tell you the same.
I was really upset
they sent me to the Lions,
but in the end, despite how badly
I wanted to be in special forces,
and how hard I fought for it,
I figured I'd see
what the co-ed battalion was all about.
To me!
Crawl, Platoon 3!
I'm doing this on my knees. That's it.
You never really gave them a chance, man.
It's not that I didn't give them a chance.
It was just weird.
Almog, we'll be breathing a lot more of it.
When I got to battalion,
I didn't believe in female combat soldiers.
I thought there was no such thing.
At first I told myself,
"Goddammit,
"I wanted to be in a recon unit
and I'm going to end up backing
"some girl? What the hell?"
Listen, you really butted heads with them.
If we say that girls' physical strength
is inferior to men's,
why shouldn't all the girls
stay on the home front?
I disagree.
We're here because
we're truly useful.
Both of us, the girls and the boys.
And I'll tell you something else,
if the IDF thought you could be somewhere else,
he would've taken you.
What Na'ama said really pissed me off.
Who are you to tell me
what I can and can't do?
They feel inferior,
but they aren't.
It's not true,
they aren't inferior
and we all need to lend each other a hand.
I see some of the girls here
are actually stronger than me,
and they do more than me.
For real,
I'm not ashamed to say it.
I just couldn't accept the idea
that I'd be serving in a co-ed battalion, man.
It drove me nuts.
Close your eyes.
Is there anyone
who doesn't want to be here?
Who doesn't want to take the next step?
Tell me, what happened
during that platoon talk?
Oh, when Ophir asked
who didn't want to be in the battalion,
I raised my hand and figured
whatever will be, will be.
Did you see Meged raise his hand?
Yes.
-He's going to transfer out of here.
I won't keep people
who don't want to be here.
I won't pat anyone on their head.
You've been eliminated,
You've got an interview tomorrow
with a placement officer.
And after a week,
when I'd transferred to Haruv,
I grabbed myself and said,
"Man, what...
"What have I done?
"What have I done?"
I got there, man,
and it was like a kick in the teeth.
Of course it was, you dumbass.
Did you think you could go from zero to 100
without a hitch?
-Some kick in the teeth, man.
Different discipline,
different people.
Crazy fitness drills.
I reached a breaking point.
I cried,
I fell apart.
And after about a month and a half
of giving it everything I had,
honestly,
I started getting these stomach cramps.
Unbelievable cramps, man.
Out of this world.
At first I tried to suffer through it,
but then I told them about it
and they started looking into it.
There's a chance I'll be taken off
combat duty entirely,
because of these cramps.
After I've gone through all that.
Do you get how awful that is?
Sure.
-It kills me, man.
I don't know what to do, man.
It's so hard.
I should've stayed with the Lions.
I told you so.
Honestly, I often wondered
what it's like when you aren't...
to be in a male-only battalion.
-I can't explain it, man,
but it's fucked.
I'd gotten used to girls.
When I got there,
they asked me,
"Hold on, did you shoot after exertion
with the girls?"
"What do you mean, man?"
"Did they actually shoot with you?"
"No, they'd watch me shoot
and then they'd clap." Come on.
Honestly, man,
I know I looked down on them
but I realize some female combat soldiers
are so much better than the men.
So much better.
I knew there could be female fighters,
but I didn't know
they could be feminine, too.
I imagined a female combat soldier
would be, you know...
Someone who...
Yeah.
-Who'd be all, "What's up, my man?"
I thought they'd all have a crew cut.
-You'd look at her
and realize that she... wow.
-I thought they'd all have a crew cut,
you know...
-Yeah. That's how I pictured it.
But when I got there...
I met Sagi.
That's the best example I can give.
Is there anyone more feminine than Sagi?
I never met girl like Sagi before.
I never imagined
my girlfriend would be
a combat fighter in the Lions.
Sagi, love.
-Don't talk to me! -It's me.
Don't talk to me, don't come near me.
Please go.
-Don't come near you?
Go.
-I'm gone.
Everything I do
reminds me of you.
Everything...
I keep wondering how you're doing,
how you feel.
It's so crazy, man,
that we're still together.
You carried the water
the whole time. -Yeah.
I told the commander,
"She's been carrying the water for too long."
She said,
"What can I do? She's a beast."
How's Sagi?
Isn't she more of a fighter
than anyone else here?
Sagi's great, man.
Listen, I can picture her
becoming a commander like Ophir.
I think Ophir
is the ideal female combat soldier.
I mean, she's the most...
-Yeah.
For sure.
-She's definitely got it.
I think I was really lucky
to have her as my platoon commander.
From the very beginning,
she saw me and helped develop me
from the ground up.
I need you to confirm my MARS is calibrated.
Count five bullets.
Look at that smile.
Good.
She motives and inspires me.
So many shots!
Excellent.
That's why I wanted to be near her
so much.
Alone I reach 50 percent
of my potential,
of what I can give.
When I'm near you,
I do more. I don't know why.
Tell the squad commanders
to turn on their flashlights.
Turn on your flashlights.
That's the Platoon Commander Runner bag.
It's yours. Good luck.
When she selected me,
it really energized me.
Got it?
-Got it, Platoon Commander.
Now I understand
that she let me prove to myself
that I could do things
I never believed I could
before I enlisted.
Yair, Yair, Yair!
First of all, I'm proud of you.
Cool?
Keep it safe, alright?
You really had a crush on Ophir, didn't you?
What's that? Look at that smile.
You start grinning from ear to ear
as soon as I mention her.
Alright, babe.
Bro.
We're going on an arrest today.
-I've missed you.
Really?
-I'm going to check on the vehicle. -Today?
Yeah.
-Alright, cool.
Good luck. Stay safe, man.
-Sure.
And most importantly,
keep in touch.
Bye.
Tomer! I don't believe it.
The rocket launcher operator.
Come, sit down.
What's up?
God bless.
What's up? Where are you now?
Me?
With the March 2018 cycle, baby.
So young.
That isn't funny.
They're better than you guys were.
That's a pretty low bar.
True, but you should still know it.
-What platoon are you with?
3.
-Oh, okay. -Still in squad 3A.
No kidding.
-Yeah.
How was medics training?
It was amazing.
I learned so many interesting things.
Let's see if our casualty is conscious.
And then I came back
to a new cycle of basic training.
What was the new squad like?
Every time you come out of the closet,
it's a little tough.
With the new squad it...
it happened by accident.
They asked me...
They were talking about sex,
and they asked when I'd last gotten laid.
And then I said,
"Oh, I've never fucked a girl."
Slowly they figured it out.
And then I had to explain again that...
that I'm uncomfortable with those words,
and when they talk a certain way.
-Did they accept it?
It's a process.
I don't know.
It was a better experience.
It sound like I've been traumatized,
like I'm a Holocaust survivor
or something.
-Of course not, but...
It was a difficult squad.
-Yeah.
The commanders are so gay, man.
"Left, left, right, left."
At first I thought the boys
were just a bunch of baboons.
"Stand on the white line."
That's how fags talk, man.
I asked myself,
"Shit, what have I gotten myself into?"
I was afraid to reveal
my sexual orientation to the platoon.
My friend is such a tranny.
But you did it eventually.
Yeah, because I didn't want to hide who I am.
It was easiest for me
to open up to Noam.
I'm attracted to boys.
No kidding.
Those boys are such gossips.
Suddenly he told me,
"I came out of the closet in high school."
No way.
-Huh.
We were in the mess hall
and someone was joking about fags.
Everyone was laughing
but I saw...
his face was getting a little red.
It killed me, man.
Listen, we need to keep him safe.
jokes are cool,
but they need to be tasteful.
We need to connect with him, man.
We need to fight for it.
-We need to soften him up.
He's in our squad, man.
-Yeah, open him... open...
Come on, stop.
That's enough, Yair.
-For real...
Go!
Attention, Gal,
I don't want to hit a girl.
Shut up.
I don't want to hear it.
The nerve.
She's gonna fuck you in the ass, man.
I think the turning point
was when I finally had the guts
to tell them to stop talking like that.
Why does it bother you
when I use the word tranny?
Because it offends me.
-You? Why?
It's offensive to the community
that I belong to.
Do you think your presence there
actually changed their perception?
Could be.
It's not on purpose.
I'm not talking about your friends or anything.
It's just some fun between friends.
Sometimes I still ignore it.
But I don't want to ignore it.
I'm not trying to hurt you,
or any other tranny,
or anyone who's LGBT.
That's what you called it, right?
Yeah.
-LGBT.
Whenever tell I someone
about my sexual orientation,
I just tell them,
"I'm attracted to men."
I don't say "I'm gay."
That word is like a bad scar to me.
The way I see it,
when people use it as a curse word
I feel less respected as a human being.
We need to work on that.
The entire squad.
We'll work on not saying things like that
to each other.
Let me tell you something,
army friends are friends for life.
Do you think it changed something for them?
Maybe just the fact that some of them
had never talked to an LGBT person before.
Maybe that detail
changed something for them,
made them think that this...
is a human being.
I mean...
-It's normal. -There's a person in front of me.
A normal, healthy, whole person.
Who's alright.
We're saying goodbye to Tomer.
When I left for medics training,
it was actually sad.
Tonight he's going
to Camp Ariel Sharon
to start training as a medic.
Why are you standing over there? Come here.
Stay safe, man.
I left basic training feeling good,
that even if I made just a tiny change,
it was still incredibly significant.
What do you think would've happened
if you hadn't left?
You'd probably go into commander training.
Heaven forbid.
-No, you would have.
Listen, you have no choice.
You either stay in the field
or leave for commander training.
It's hard in the field.
-What do you mean?
You have to grit your teeth
and fire these five bullets, alright?
-I had a problem with weapons.
Breath out.
I just can't do it.
I'm scared of the weapon.
I don't know if it'll ever feel natural
to be walking around with a fucking weapon.
It doesn't make sense
that at any moment I can...
kill people.
It's like a killer kid that's just
hanging around my neck.
Eventually I think I convinced myself
that these were only cardboard targets.
I got used to the weapon.
I even liked it.
I'm such a poser.
Mine is perfect.
One firing the rocket launcher!
Great. Keep going.
Wow. I love this. I love this.
I was in denial
all through basic training.
I was like, "Alright,
I won't be doing checkpoints,
"it doesn't matter that I have a weapon,
none of it matters."
Now that we're out in the field,
these issues have come up again.
I think when we started
going on operational missions,
the thing that surprised me the most
was how detached I was.
Did you arrest anyone?
We were supposed to,
but in the end it was just patrols.
You just go from house to house
and ask to see everyone's ID.
You ask them...
just to know who's living there.
-Right.
It's like a census,
only you're doing it
in the middle of the night,
in people's houses,
with a gun pointed at their face.
I mean, we gathered the people
and pointed a gun at them
and they still offered us tea.
I was like, "Oh my God,
who am I to go into the home
"of people who could be my grandparents,
in the middle of the night,
"and ask for their ID?"
It really shook me.
Don't know.
Interacting with the civilian population
is really unpleasant.
Will you keep doing that?
Don't know.
I want to say no,
but I should be there.
As a balancing force?
Yeah, and because
I prefer to be the one in power...
Show me some ID.
To be the one with that authority,
instead of someone else.
When do we leave on the mission?
I think we...
after sunset we'll get organized.
We'll probably leave around 2:00, 3:00 AM.
Can you believe that we finished basic training
and made it to the field
and that now we're going on an arrest together?
Can I believe it?
I didn't think it would happen, but...
I thought I'd be in jail for a while,
before I ended up here.
I knew there'd be a lot
of weekend confinements.
I didn't think about jail. No way.
There were quite a few.
-Wow.
It was really annoying when...
When you want to,
you can be the best soldier in the platoon.
You can run the fitness test
faster than anyone,
but you'd run it
and then stop in the middle for a smoke.
I mean, it depended
on your mood that day, and that sucked
because now...
-It wasn't about my mood,
it was about their attitude that day.
If they came to me with a "Good morning"...
-Moshe, how do people greet you each morning?
God forbid I get a soldier like that.
How do they approach you?
They beg you to get up.
"Moshe, please get up..."
-Fine, fine.
But you can talk to us like people,
"Get up, take half an hour to get organized
before morning inspection."
No, no.
3A, rousting drill!
Wake up, come on, get up!
Moshe, come on, get up.
Moshe.
This is real, Moshe. Let's go.
Almog, let's go.
Wake up.
Fuck this.
Alright, Moshe. Get up.
The platoon will stand at attention
to receive the commanders. Attention!
Get in formation, Moshe.
Weapon in both arms, Moshe.
You know what?
Take off that strap.
Take off that strap
and give it here.
What is it?
Calm down.
-I am calm.
Don't talk back.
Moshe, get a grip.
Stop it.
-Enough, Moshe. -Fuck this.
Stop it, Moshe.
Moshe, stop it. Put away that cigarette.
Fuck them. I've got nothing to lose.
-Stop it. Get back into formation.
Stop it.
How much time do we have?
-We don't. Come on.
Stay here.
If I hadn't watched over you,
you would have ended up in jail.
Are you the most troublesome kid?
Not troublesome. The...
cutest kid in my family.
Interesting.
You wish.
I'm Almog, this is Moshe.
-Moshe.
This is the army, not high school.
Get a grip
and stand like you should.
In the end you'll be best soldier ever.
Go on, Na'ama. You can do it.
Basic training wouldn't be the same
if we didn't have this connection.
At the end of the day, I think
that if this battalion was exactly the same
but had no girls in it,
your conduct would be terrible.
Of course.
Let's be honest,
a lot of the time
you only did things to prove to us...
Sure, but...
-That we couldn't do it.
Sure.
Fine, I like the competition.
I mean, we just did a company drill.
You see a fucking girl
walking with 65 lbs. on her back.
You're dead on your feet,
but she keeps going.
You look at that and say,
"How come she's walking and I can't?
"How come?"
It drives me crazy.
And that energizes me.
Sometimes I didn't have the strength
for a lot of things,
but the fact that you didn't either
made me power through.
Because if I couldn't do it,
how could I lecture Moshe
about not doing what he should?
I had to do it,
or I couldn't lecture you.
I mean...
It happened a lot.
For a lot of people, the army
is like a second chance
to reset their lives
and do it all over again,
no matter who they were before.
That was your chance.
It was more than a chance.
It allowed me to fix a lot of things.
It made me a better person at home.
I think twice before crossing the street.
I don't jay walk,
because I'm in uniform.
Really?
-All sorts of stuff.
I never thought I'd hear you say that.
Do you feel like you could
get through the next two years?
That you've found your place?
Yeah. Honestly, I really like it here
in the battalion.
Yeah? You like being in the field?
-Yeah, I really do.
Knowing you, I think
this period is the most...
-It's the best time I've ever had.
Yeah?
-Without a doubt.
The best time of my life.
This is what I've been waiting for.
To enlist, to be a combat soldier, all that.
To represent something.
To be a part of something.
Forget the representation.
Even when I'm out of uniform
I think...
A 13-year-old kid shouldn't see me
throwing a cigarette on the floor,
shouldn't think that's what soldiers are like.
I can't walk around with my shirt untucked
and have a bereaved mother
see me and say,
"My son died for that uniform."
Right.
-I can't. -True.
Did you ever think
you'd say things like that?
Never.
-Me neither. -Never.
Will you stay?
After your two years are up?
Maybe.
Really?
-Who's to say?
Alright, we've got that arrest.
They'll probably tell us to get going soon.
-Let's go.
Alright.
My equipment's in my room.
But take the vest.
Aren't you a combat soldier?
Goddamn.
Tonight we are going
to make an arrest in Tayasir.
This is our company's sector.
And this is our platoon's area of interest.
Our target is here.
We've got a back entrance
inside a yard
and the front entrance right here.
As far as we know,
based on the photographs,
there's a hallway here.
That hallway is one of our potential
escape routes.
We're going to station
two units along the escape route.
Got it?
We'll chase him down, flank and capture him.
I realized suddenly
that the time for games is over,
and that...
it's really happening.
There's always the possibility we'll have
to fight a terrorist at point-blank range,
but this is what we trained for.
I believe that when it comes down to it,
everyone will do the right thing
to neutralize the terrorist.
That's it. Any questions?
All clear?
Then let's go get ready. Quickly.
This is where you prove yourself
as a combat soldier.
Have you got the gas?
Distribute it however you want.
Head count.
Head count.
Magazines in.
Confirm safety.
Deputy 2, this is Vanguard Commander.
Green.
Vanguard Commander, this is Deputy 2.
Permission to advance.
We started moving.
We were silent.
No one said a word.
The only thing you could hear was...
white noise from the radio.
Other than that, we heard nothing.
Commander 1, this is Command.
Quiet, secure movement
towards the populated area.
Report when you're ready. Out.
Command 1, this is Deputy.
We've got wheels approaching, take cover.
It's here, no?
3, 3A, what's your location?
I've joined up with Peleg.
We're deploying soldiers
around the house.
I will join you
for the building sweep.
Roger, over.
3, 3A, over,
we've began our sweep
for the suspected targets.
Make sure to follow ID protocols
if you reach the target.
Roger, over.
Stay with me.
Sweep.
Stand.
-Stop.
Command, this is Deputy.
We've got him.
Alright, this is it.
Turn off the camera.
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Tonight we are going
to make an arrest in Tayasir.
This is our company's sector.
And this is our platoon's area of interest.
Our target is here.
We've got a back entrance
inside a yard
and the front entrance right here.
As far as we know,
based on the photographs,
there's a hallway here.
That hallway is one of our potential
escape routes.
We're going to station two units
along the escape route.
We'll chase him down, flank and capture him.
Got it?
Head count.
Head count.
Magazines in.
Confirm safety.
Commander 1, this is Deputy 2.
Permission to advance.
Commander 1, this is Command.
Quiet, secure movement
towards the populated area.
Report when you're ready. Out.
It's been three months
since we completed basic training.
We finished our training
and were sent out into the field.
Can I see some ID, please?
It's a new phase in our life.
We've finally entered
actual combat,
we're finally doing something
instead of just training all day.
Thank you.
We do checkpoints, patrols,
operational missions.
We train all day.
We've developed a field routine.
Tomorrow we'll be going on our first arrest.
Honestly, I feel like I've found my place here.
I like the army. I'm having fun.
But others ended up
in a totally different place.
Avigail and I just completed
our preparation for squad commander training.
We've left the rest of the platoon behind
and we're coming back to base
to wait for training to start.
Hi there!
What's up?
-How are you? -Hello, hello.
I saw you in my dreams, you know.
What's up, man?
So what's up? How are you guys?
Most importantly, how's the food?
Wow.
-Wow, you won't believe the food.
Sis, it's the best food
I've eaten in the army.
If you want a schnitzel, you take one.
If you want another one,
go ahead.
And how was the prep in general?
Some things were really great.
We had panels
on the nature of a field commander
as opposed to a basic training commander.
They work on helping you
become a commander,
so when you finally end up in front of a squad
you won't start stuttering.
Remember when you thought
you'd be a battalion commander?
Yes.
-"I'm going to be a battalion commander."
Yes, I was sure I was going to enlist
and from there go into a military career.
When people asked,
"What do you want to study in university?"
I said, "Nothing. I'm gonna stay in the army."
You know I've waited my whole life
for this basic training.
I came to it incredibly motivated.
My U-formation isn't proportional
to the number of people in our platoon.
Oh, man. You were such a geek!
Yeah, but it's more than that.
See that hole?
Fill it up.
It's taking initiative.
Why are you staring at me?
Leave it.
Go back to your place.
I can't do it any other way.
You know me.
Stand at attention to receive the commanders.
Attention!
The fitness test isn't about being in shape.
It's about attitude.
Even when things got so hard
that I wanted to die,
I didn't give up.
I went all out
to pass these tests.
Breathe. Open up.
I was proud of myself.
It took a lot of willpower to finish
and say, "Alright, I'm a fighter."
Na'ama, Negev operator.
Holy shit!
I challenged myself
every step of the way.
I knew where I wanted to end up.
I wanted to be a commander.
I want to be a commander
because it'll teach me a lot
about myself and about the profession.
It'll make me even more of a professional.
But I used to think
that combat duty was everything...
And you don't anymore?
Sure I don't.
After two years and eight months,
I won't stay here a second longer.
I'll do it all
and I'll do it well,
and I'll give it my all,
but it's taking too much of my energy.
Right now I want to say, "Okay,
I'll do the two years and eight months,
"I'll do my absolute best,
"but when I'm done, I'm done."
I won't stay on.
-For me it's the other way around.
I have more fun here
than at home on the weekends.
I like the drills and the missions,
even though I complained to Ophir
during the company drill,
with tears in my eyes,
"No more! My feet hurt!"
After that I think about it
and I just want more.
Three years from now
I do see myself as a deputy.
God willing...
-In the infantry. -Yeah.
I'd like us to take a moment
and remember the old Karina.
We have to go to the seamstress on Friday.
We have to.
No, Mom. It's the pants that are big,
not me.
When I enlisted,
I had no idea where I was headed.
Remember the drama she put us through?
"Excuse me, Commander.
I'm very sorry, but do you really think
"I'm not going to put on makeup?"
I can't walk around like this,
with all due...
I'm sorry, but you're a fighter,
you don't get to put on makeup.
I didn't know how to handle the idea
that I couldn't do whatever I wanted.
I want to eat sushi,
I want to hang out with my friends,
I want to feel pretty.
I swear, I'm the hottest girl here.
Listen, I'll slap you across the face.
Calm down.
I can pass it.
Getting into shape
and passing the tests
was so hard at first.
I can't run anymore.
It hurts.
-Sit down. Sit. -Fall backwards.
At a certain point
I just wanted to get up and leave.
Why are you crying?
Because I can't do this anymore.
It's too much.
It's only going to get harder,
not easier.
I can't.
My brain is dead.
I'm in pain.
That's the way it is.
-I want to go to bed and sleep for eight hours.
Okay.
Then you can drop out of combat training
and go sleep as much as you like
as... I don't know. A desk jockey.
Remember how we had to slap you around
to keep you from considering
dropping out of combat training?
I don't want to stay.
What do you mean?
It's hard. It's just hard.
Of course it's hard, Karina.
-Get over it.
It's a process. You don't...
You can't get out of the car
and immediately charge.
"Allah Hu Akbar."
What are you talking about?
Pinky swear.
On our friendship.
-On our...
I want this!
-Hey! It's locked!
Come on, Karina.
-Stop!
If you had dropped out,
where do you think you'd be?
Where would we have found Karina
four months later?
On the home front,
making coffee for my commander.
Sure you'd be making coffee.
The commander would be making you coffee.
11, 12, 13...
Alright, I couldn't actually see myself
as a desk jockey.
Alright, Karina, you can do this!
Good job!
I picked myself up
and fought for it.
Excellent, excellent.
I made it!
-You're amazing.
It feels like victory.
One, two...
-Attention!
I see myself differently now.
I've decided to give it to Karina,
because I see how much you've changed.
I feel like I've matured
over these past eight months.
I'm not that same stupid girl...
-For sure. For sure.
I'm not the same stupid, immature...
I don't know what else I was.
Except for that time you said,
"If you don't put me in the command platoon,
"I'm going home."
When the platoons were disbanded,
I really wanted to get into
the command platoon.
We've reached the end of an era.
We'll be getting into formation as a company,
and the platoons will be redistributed.
These are the people
who've been selected for the command platoon.
Almog Gibli,
Avigail Kapelner, Na'ama Ulman.
When the company commander
didn't read my name,
I felt this was it.
That's it.
There was no reason for me to stay.
I don't want anything
to do with this place.
Go wash your face.
-I don't want to be here.
You've destroyed my motivation.
I packed my bag.
I didn't want to stay in the battalion
for another second.
I told myself that if I wasn't immediately
selected for squad commander training,
I didn't want to be there.
What's up, Karina?
And then Commander Nehorai
sat me down for a talk.
What's the difference
between a first-selection squad commander,
who was in the command platoon,
and a squad commander who was selected later
and wasn't in the command platoon?
Seeing it happen,
being told "No, you won't be there,"
it's like, "No."
Why? Because you aren't used
to hearing "no"?
As a commander,
you need to get used to hearing that.
And if up to this point
you've never heard the word "no",
this is where you learn to deal with it.
Move on.
If you prove yourself,
I'll make sure you're selected next time.
Now look, you'll be joining
the command platoon soon.
Listen, Yana and I have a plan.
Ophir will be the company commander,
and she and I will be her platoon commanders.
Yana said she'll leave at that point.
I want to be a deputy.
When I'm an officer,
when I'm a squad commander,
my goal
is to be like Ophir.
-"When I'm an officer."
If Ophir were to come to you now
and say, "Yana, I want you."
What would you say?
Cut, cut.
Lift your legs as high as you can.
You know when I felt that first spark?
Was it during the fitness test?
When she was demonstrating the drill.
I stood there and looked up at her
like this.
Except everyone got over it
after the test, and you still felt that way.
Arm to opposite leg.
Can we start each morning
with her demonstrations?
It's true that I had this crush on Ophir.
I didn't really know what to do about it.
What could I do?
Am I gonna say,
"Good morning, Platoon Commander.
"How was your night?"
I mean...
She'll delay my leave.
You forget how Yana chased after her.
"Please go on guard duty with me,
please go on guard duty with me."
She chased...
-"Guard duty!" -She chased her so hard.
So, Yana.
I didn't know how to get close to her.
Why did you want gate duty so badly?
I wanted to get to know the staff.
Is that wrong?
Is this your first gate duty?
-Yeah.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I will it, but I'll save it
for the next guard duty.
Remember how Ophir ran from me
at the guard post?
You could say that sobered me up.
The illusion was broken.
The illusion. Exactly.
I think it's like
how every kid has a crush on their teacher.
-Yes, exactly.
It was that.
-She was just...
She's still my role model.
She's proof that girls
can be combat soldiers, too.
She proved it to the boys, too.
I mean, during basic training,
especially in Platoon 3,
we used to fight all the time
over all sorts...
-With the boys.
All these things.
-With Moshe.
Over the fact that we're girls,
let's put it like that.
Have they changed at all?
The equipment is still an issue,
they fight over that,
but I mean... Platoon 3.
Do they fight over who should carry it,
or the idea that girls shouldn't?
Who should carry it.
-Who should carry it.
Lovely.
Insert magazine at an angle!
Remember how they were
at the beginning?
They lowered the standards
so that any girl can be a fighter if she wants.
Any girl.
Moshe, you're delusional.
They looked down on us,
and it drove me crazy.
Terrorist!
I was the best shot in the platoon.
Excellent. Good round.
But it wasn't good enough for Moshe.
Women can't be combat soldiers.
They absolutely can't.
There's no such thing
as a female combat soldier.
In short, we're on cleaning duty today,
and the kitchen here is dirty. Just saying.
I wanted to hit him.
Yeah, men are stronger,
but that doesn't mean
we can't be combat soldiers
and it doesn't mean...
-Fine.
It says nothing about us.
Platoon 3, start walking.
But we proved to them
time and again
that we're just as good as they are.
Exactly.
-Maybe even better.
True.
Remember our diversion
during the two-sided drill?
Wow, that was great.
You have two casualties on your force.
End of drill!
I killed them.
You're being tested not as individuals,
but as a squad.
What about the squad test?
That was crazy.
I want to see a lot of attitude
and healthy competition.
Alright, show me some attitude, girls!
It's a competition, no?
Eye on the prize, eye on the prize.
Fine, the boys are stronger than us,
physically.
Me, you...
But they can't beat our teamwork.
They'll run while we cover them.
That's how we'll capture the hill.
The fact that we made good decisions
in the moment is proof
of the kind of fighters we are.
One squad won,
and that squad is 3C.
It sucks that this sexism
didn't end with basic training.
While we were reinforcing in Samaria,
we were securing a major junction,
on the way to Nablus.
People saw me, a girl with a weapon,
with a ponytail,
with the whole thing...
they didn't know how to handle it.
Two girls standing.
-Cars actually stopped.
They looked at us like this,
through the window.
They looked at us in shock.
They didn't know what was happening.
The Palestinians.
Later, people who live in the area
came and asked me,
"What? What are you doing here?"
As in,
"What are you, specifically, doing here?"
It was unbelievable.
I was at a junction
with another girl
and then this religious guy
came from the settlement above us and said,
"If you're the ones here
then it's fine, you can leave."
How insulting.
-Seriously. People look at us
and think,
"If there's a girl here,
"we're better off with no one at all."
Like, we don't even need her.
We need girls in combat roles
just to show them that women are here,
that they have rights
and deserve to be a part of it all.
I absolutely believe that.
It's one of the reasons I'm here.
But listen, it's exhausting.
I've got two years left,
and I'm going to spend them
fighting for my values,
fighting for my identity.
Why do I have to carry the burden
of spreading the message
that women deserve equality?
Still, while you're here,
you have to do it.
And when you see your friends,
when you see all these things,
it does make you want to stay
and do it.
That's why it's still going on.
Oh my God,
if I didn't have you guys in basic training...
It would have been endless,
if you hadn't been with me
in basic training.
I know it's a cliche,
but I wouldn't be me
if we hadn't gone through
basic training together. -Totally.
Bags down, girls.
They don't need to stay on your back.
Lower them to the ground.
Do you know what "posers" are?
No.
-It's the ones who enlist as combat soldiers
and dip their boots
in a pile of sand
to make it look like
they've spent time in the field.
Let's all take a picture
of our feet.
Wow!
Karina, you've got a fallen eyelash.
Wish for them to be hot.
Ready?
-Yes, Commander Ada!
Good.
Go on, charge!
Now a loving photo.
No, wait!
Nice!
After a month in the field,
I fought with the company commander
and realized I didn't want
to stay in the battalion as a fighter.
I left to train as a vehicle mechanic,
and now I do maintenance
in the battalion.
I'm happy doing that.
Hey there, Butch.
Bro.
What's up, baby?
-Move.
Move.
You've got a cozy life, don't you?
How are you, babe?
I'm good, how are you?
Maintenance and all that crap.
We fix whatever you guys mess up.
Come have a smoke with me.
-Alright, let's go.
Come on.
You've got a great setup here, don't you?
Yeah, man. It's cool here.
Fighting with the company commander
gets you places.
If there's a car, we fix it.
If there isn't,
we just sit around and chill.
That's great, man.
It's the good life, man. Leave every Thursday,
spend every third weekend here.
How's the field?
Patrol, patrol, patrol, gate duty.
Patrol, patrol, patrol, pillbox duty.
Refreshing.
Look at where we are, man.
-Well, I'm happy, man.
Look at this dump.
We don't even show up on GPS.
Fine.
-When apps try to locate us, they crash.
Man, we're in the middle of nowhere,
but we've already gotten through
eight months in the army.
Look how fast they flew by.
Two more years, man.
Two years.
Looking back, man,
there are things...
I think about things I did and think,
"Why did I do that? What an idiot."
Almog, abandoning your weapon?
What's wrong with you?
You won't be here
if you can't be responsible for your weapon,
do you understand?
Yeah, I know. It was one hell of a goof.
A goof? You call that a goof?
Prepare yourself for one hell of a consequence.
Honestly, when I enlisted
I was the most spoiled kid in the world.
I couldn't handle being told what to do.
It drove me nuts.
I'm so tired of this.
Fuck everyone.
They can suck it.
Almog.
Almog.
Almog!
Honestly, we were all over Nehorai
from minute one.
We didn't like him.
Butch!
Remember when you were on strike
and Nehorai came
and started calling you,
"Butch! Butch!"
Butch?
Did he call me Butch?
Did you notice
everyone started calling me Butch?
Butch? Is that in Hebrew?
You're asking what it means?
-Yes.
A masculine girl.
You honestly don't know
why they call me Butch?
It went like this:
I said, "What do you think of the girls here?
"They're all butch. Yuck.
I wouldn't go near them."
Moshe said,
"You look like a butch girl."
And then the name stuck.
Butch!
Come here, you're standing trial.
Attention, Company Commander.
Do you know why you're here?
A lot of discipline issues.
Talking back.
We were stupid, man.
99 percent of the time.
But sometimes
they didn't do right by us, either.
Most of the time we were the problem.
For sure.
I was confined to base
over a ton of things in the beginning.
Another weekend here at the base.
This room looks big, doesn't it?
You have no idea how tiny it is.
Did you ever think
you wouldn't finish basic training?
Sure.
Before the talk with the battalion commander,
while I was in jail.
Eight days in jail.
I had a feeling
he'd send you to jail.
Is that cool?
Not good?
-Not very impressive.
I hope it'll make you understand.
It was a kick in the teeth.
Eventually it set me straight.
How has the army changed you?
How has it changed me?
In a ton of ways, man.
How I look at the things I do,
how I do them and when,
how I respond to different situations.
It changed my civilian life.
The way I behave at home.
It's more than just the army.
-Everyone's like that.
Sure. It makes you grow up.
Gives you a different perspective.
What about you, dumbass?
I'm great, man.
I do the grunt work,
I shut up,
I do more grunt work
and shut up as some more.
Living the dream.
-And go wild on Thursdays.
Living the dream.
-Absolutely, man.
Was there a moment during basic training
that almost broke you?
That made you say,
"I'm done, I want to run"?
Sure, man.
Every second Tuesday.
Every time I fought with someone I said,
"That's it, I'm leaving."
You have seven minutes
to fill in your personal questionnaires.
I don't wanna see anyone smoking
during this time.
I had a lot of discipline issues at first.
Is there a reason you're smoking?
I just lit it. For the smell.
I had anger issues.
I got into a lot of trouble with the commander.
Moshe, come here.
It's just going to be an hour's wait.
It won't.
-Look, he's coming.
Then Eliav, come quickly,
you motherfucker.
Shut up. No swearing.
I wasn't used
to doing what I was told.
You cussed out your friend's mother,
your friends.
Fine, that's between me and...
-Shut up, I'm talking.
How many times
did Commander Nehorai and I
go toe to toe?
Good luck to the guard.
Pick it up. -I'm going off duty.
-Pick it up. -I'm off duty now.
You'll be relieved soon.
You're on duty right now.
-Another hour? Fuck that.
Calm down, Moshe.
If I was a commander
and had to deal with a soldier like me,
I don't know how I'd do it.
Nehorai was really patient.
Come on, let's sit down and talk.
A person who lets himself off the hook,
never learns his actual limits.
The goal is to try.
It's important.
But the person who really made me stay
and finish basic training
was Ophir.
You need to be ready.
Even if it's hard,
even if you don't feel well,
even if you're in an emotional crisis.
She knew how to get me to keep going.
She never gave up on me.
We're looking forwards now.
Only forwards.
Ophir supported me
and believed in me every step of the way.
Honestly, I don't care what you were.
I care what you are now.
I think of this as a clean slate.
You're here now,
and you'll be the best you can be.
You'll be great. We'll help you.
She saw something no one else did.
Go, go. All the way, Moshe.
That's how she set me straight,
turned me into a real soldier.
Excellent. Excellent.
Seven,
eight...
Let's go!
Moshe, move it.
Good.
This structure builds you up.
Up twice, three times, four times.
It's important you don't give up.
Stand up, everyone.
She taught me to be a calmer person,
to take everything in proportion,
not to fight with myself so much,
not to fight with other people.
Come on, Moshe.
Take him down, Moshe!
Good, Moshe!
Stretcher to shoulder height.
It was a long, difficult road,
but it was worth it.
A person is a little of what he's born with
and a lot of what he makes of himself.
I consider this
a turning point in your life.
We've gotten older, man.
For real.
For real.
What was the best thing
about your enlistment?
Honestly?
You, you little...
We were such kids, man.
We'll be friends for life.
Brothers.
-Of course.
Where do you live again?
What's Kiryat Arba?
-It's Kiryat Arba.
What is it?
-Don't you know it?
Am I supposed to?
I feel like a pit bull.
One who doesn't care at all
till someone steps on his tail.
But your tail's been clipped.
I don't think they're taking this seriously.
They're slackers.
I offered.
I'm not sharing your sleeping bag, man.
-I offered.
Okay, we'll use it to cover up?
-Yes.
But we'll have to huddle close.
No problem, man.
Just, you know,
no... no moving.
Physically, I'm the big brother.
Absolutely, bro.
Alright, my brother.
Let me lay down on the dunes
Let the muses thunder on
Let me lay down with each stride...
What's a stride?
"With each stride."
I don't know what "stride" means.
In short, treat the IDF with pride, man.
-Yeah.
I'm very happy with the Lions.
I think it's the right place for me,
even though some rabbis
have spoken against co-ed service.
As a believer,
it's important for me to show
that you can continue to uphold your values
while serving alongside women.
There are a lot of advantages.
Women offer the kind of creative thinking
that men don't have.
Overall, it's a softer environment.
It's not as...
I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
Hey there, hero.
What's up, king?
-What's up?
How are you, man? You okay?
Come on, let's sit here.
How do you feel?
Where are you? What's up?
Listen, it's been tough.
It hasn't been easy.
Remember how I kept nagging them
for four months,
telling them that I don't want to be
with the Lions,
and no and no and no?
-Yeah.
In short, I got to Ground Forces HQ
after they told me
I'd been eliminated from the battalion.
I spoke to this major.
He asked if I wanted to join
the Haruv recon unit.
I heard "special forces" and my eyes lit up.
That's all I ever wanted, man.
-Right.
You know that getting into special forces
was my dream, Yair.
Before my enlistment I fought
the army for months to get there.
I haven't spent my life dreaming
of being in a co-ed battalion.
You won't let your soul be at peace.
Of course I won't.
If they gave me a chance...
Then keep going.
What can I say?
That's all I can do.
Seriously.
-But honey,
the army doesn't do requests.
-You have to accept it.
Okay.
-Any father would tell you the same.
I was really upset
they sent me to the Lions,
but in the end, despite how badly
I wanted to be in special forces,
and how hard I fought for it,
I figured I'd see
what the co-ed battalion was all about.
To me!
Crawl, Platoon 3!
I'm doing this on my knees. That's it.
You never really gave them a chance, man.
It's not that I didn't give them a chance.
It was just weird.
Almog, we'll be breathing a lot more of it.
When I got to battalion,
I didn't believe in female combat soldiers.
I thought there was no such thing.
At first I told myself,
"Goddammit,
"I wanted to be in a recon unit
and I'm going to end up backing
"some girl? What the hell?"
Listen, you really butted heads with them.
If we say that girls' physical strength
is inferior to men's,
why shouldn't all the girls
stay on the home front?
I disagree.
We're here because
we're truly useful.
Both of us, the girls and the boys.
And I'll tell you something else,
if the IDF thought you could be somewhere else,
he would've taken you.
What Na'ama said really pissed me off.
Who are you to tell me
what I can and can't do?
They feel inferior,
but they aren't.
It's not true,
they aren't inferior
and we all need to lend each other a hand.
I see some of the girls here
are actually stronger than me,
and they do more than me.
For real,
I'm not ashamed to say it.
I just couldn't accept the idea
that I'd be serving in a co-ed battalion, man.
It drove me nuts.
Close your eyes.
Is there anyone
who doesn't want to be here?
Who doesn't want to take the next step?
Tell me, what happened
during that platoon talk?
Oh, when Ophir asked
who didn't want to be in the battalion,
I raised my hand and figured
whatever will be, will be.
Did you see Meged raise his hand?
Yes.
-He's going to transfer out of here.
I won't keep people
who don't want to be here.
I won't pat anyone on their head.
You've been eliminated,
You've got an interview tomorrow
with a placement officer.
And after a week,
when I'd transferred to Haruv,
I grabbed myself and said,
"Man, what...
"What have I done?
"What have I done?"
I got there, man,
and it was like a kick in the teeth.
Of course it was, you dumbass.
Did you think you could go from zero to 100
without a hitch?
-Some kick in the teeth, man.
Different discipline,
different people.
Crazy fitness drills.
I reached a breaking point.
I cried,
I fell apart.
And after about a month and a half
of giving it everything I had,
honestly,
I started getting these stomach cramps.
Unbelievable cramps, man.
Out of this world.
At first I tried to suffer through it,
but then I told them about it
and they started looking into it.
There's a chance I'll be taken off
combat duty entirely,
because of these cramps.
After I've gone through all that.
Do you get how awful that is?
Sure.
-It kills me, man.
I don't know what to do, man.
It's so hard.
I should've stayed with the Lions.
I told you so.
Honestly, I often wondered
what it's like when you aren't...
to be in a male-only battalion.
-I can't explain it, man,
but it's fucked.
I'd gotten used to girls.
When I got there,
they asked me,
"Hold on, did you shoot after exertion
with the girls?"
"What do you mean, man?"
"Did they actually shoot with you?"
"No, they'd watch me shoot
and then they'd clap." Come on.
Honestly, man,
I know I looked down on them
but I realize some female combat soldiers
are so much better than the men.
So much better.
I knew there could be female fighters,
but I didn't know
they could be feminine, too.
I imagined a female combat soldier
would be, you know...
Someone who...
Yeah.
-Who'd be all, "What's up, my man?"
I thought they'd all have a crew cut.
-You'd look at her
and realize that she... wow.
-I thought they'd all have a crew cut,
you know...
-Yeah. That's how I pictured it.
But when I got there...
I met Sagi.
That's the best example I can give.
Is there anyone more feminine than Sagi?
I never met girl like Sagi before.
I never imagined
my girlfriend would be
a combat fighter in the Lions.
Sagi, love.
-Don't talk to me! -It's me.
Don't talk to me, don't come near me.
Please go.
-Don't come near you?
Go.
-I'm gone.
Everything I do
reminds me of you.
Everything...
I keep wondering how you're doing,
how you feel.
It's so crazy, man,
that we're still together.
You carried the water
the whole time. -Yeah.
I told the commander,
"She's been carrying the water for too long."
She said,
"What can I do? She's a beast."
How's Sagi?
Isn't she more of a fighter
than anyone else here?
Sagi's great, man.
Listen, I can picture her
becoming a commander like Ophir.
I think Ophir
is the ideal female combat soldier.
I mean, she's the most...
-Yeah.
For sure.
-She's definitely got it.
I think I was really lucky
to have her as my platoon commander.
From the very beginning,
she saw me and helped develop me
from the ground up.
I need you to confirm my MARS is calibrated.
Count five bullets.
Look at that smile.
Good.
She motives and inspires me.
So many shots!
Excellent.
That's why I wanted to be near her
so much.
Alone I reach 50 percent
of my potential,
of what I can give.
When I'm near you,
I do more. I don't know why.
Tell the squad commanders
to turn on their flashlights.
Turn on your flashlights.
That's the Platoon Commander Runner bag.
It's yours. Good luck.
When she selected me,
it really energized me.
Got it?
-Got it, Platoon Commander.
Now I understand
that she let me prove to myself
that I could do things
I never believed I could
before I enlisted.
Yair, Yair, Yair!
First of all, I'm proud of you.
Cool?
Keep it safe, alright?
You really had a crush on Ophir, didn't you?
What's that? Look at that smile.
You start grinning from ear to ear
as soon as I mention her.
Alright, babe.
Bro.
We're going on an arrest today.
-I've missed you.
Really?
-I'm going to check on the vehicle. -Today?
Yeah.
-Alright, cool.
Good luck. Stay safe, man.
-Sure.
And most importantly,
keep in touch.
Bye.
Tomer! I don't believe it.
The rocket launcher operator.
Come, sit down.
What's up?
God bless.
What's up? Where are you now?
Me?
With the March 2018 cycle, baby.
So young.
That isn't funny.
They're better than you guys were.
That's a pretty low bar.
True, but you should still know it.
-What platoon are you with?
3.
-Oh, okay. -Still in squad 3A.
No kidding.
-Yeah.
How was medics training?
It was amazing.
I learned so many interesting things.
Let's see if our casualty is conscious.
And then I came back
to a new cycle of basic training.
What was the new squad like?
Every time you come out of the closet,
it's a little tough.
With the new squad it...
it happened by accident.
They asked me...
They were talking about sex,
and they asked when I'd last gotten laid.
And then I said,
"Oh, I've never fucked a girl."
Slowly they figured it out.
And then I had to explain again that...
that I'm uncomfortable with those words,
and when they talk a certain way.
-Did they accept it?
It's a process.
I don't know.
It was a better experience.
It sound like I've been traumatized,
like I'm a Holocaust survivor
or something.
-Of course not, but...
It was a difficult squad.
-Yeah.
The commanders are so gay, man.
"Left, left, right, left."
At first I thought the boys
were just a bunch of baboons.
"Stand on the white line."
That's how fags talk, man.
I asked myself,
"Shit, what have I gotten myself into?"
I was afraid to reveal
my sexual orientation to the platoon.
My friend is such a tranny.
But you did it eventually.
Yeah, because I didn't want to hide who I am.
It was easiest for me
to open up to Noam.
I'm attracted to boys.
No kidding.
Those boys are such gossips.
Suddenly he told me,
"I came out of the closet in high school."
No way.
-Huh.
We were in the mess hall
and someone was joking about fags.
Everyone was laughing
but I saw...
his face was getting a little red.
It killed me, man.
Listen, we need to keep him safe.
jokes are cool,
but they need to be tasteful.
We need to connect with him, man.
We need to fight for it.
-We need to soften him up.
He's in our squad, man.
-Yeah, open him... open...
Come on, stop.
That's enough, Yair.
-For real...
Go!
Attention, Gal,
I don't want to hit a girl.
Shut up.
I don't want to hear it.
The nerve.
She's gonna fuck you in the ass, man.
I think the turning point
was when I finally had the guts
to tell them to stop talking like that.
Why does it bother you
when I use the word tranny?
Because it offends me.
-You? Why?
It's offensive to the community
that I belong to.
Do you think your presence there
actually changed their perception?
Could be.
It's not on purpose.
I'm not talking about your friends or anything.
It's just some fun between friends.
Sometimes I still ignore it.
But I don't want to ignore it.
I'm not trying to hurt you,
or any other tranny,
or anyone who's LGBT.
That's what you called it, right?
Yeah.
-LGBT.
Whenever tell I someone
about my sexual orientation,
I just tell them,
"I'm attracted to men."
I don't say "I'm gay."
That word is like a bad scar to me.
The way I see it,
when people use it as a curse word
I feel less respected as a human being.
We need to work on that.
The entire squad.
We'll work on not saying things like that
to each other.
Let me tell you something,
army friends are friends for life.
Do you think it changed something for them?
Maybe just the fact that some of them
had never talked to an LGBT person before.
Maybe that detail
changed something for them,
made them think that this...
is a human being.
I mean...
-It's normal. -There's a person in front of me.
A normal, healthy, whole person.
Who's alright.
We're saying goodbye to Tomer.
When I left for medics training,
it was actually sad.
Tonight he's going
to Camp Ariel Sharon
to start training as a medic.
Why are you standing over there? Come here.
Stay safe, man.
I left basic training feeling good,
that even if I made just a tiny change,
it was still incredibly significant.
What do you think would've happened
if you hadn't left?
You'd probably go into commander training.
Heaven forbid.
-No, you would have.
Listen, you have no choice.
You either stay in the field
or leave for commander training.
It's hard in the field.
-What do you mean?
You have to grit your teeth
and fire these five bullets, alright?
-I had a problem with weapons.
Breath out.
I just can't do it.
I'm scared of the weapon.
I don't know if it'll ever feel natural
to be walking around with a fucking weapon.
It doesn't make sense
that at any moment I can...
kill people.
It's like a killer kid that's just
hanging around my neck.
Eventually I think I convinced myself
that these were only cardboard targets.
I got used to the weapon.
I even liked it.
I'm such a poser.
Mine is perfect.
One firing the rocket launcher!
Great. Keep going.
Wow. I love this. I love this.
I was in denial
all through basic training.
I was like, "Alright,
I won't be doing checkpoints,
"it doesn't matter that I have a weapon,
none of it matters."
Now that we're out in the field,
these issues have come up again.
I think when we started
going on operational missions,
the thing that surprised me the most
was how detached I was.
Did you arrest anyone?
We were supposed to,
but in the end it was just patrols.
You just go from house to house
and ask to see everyone's ID.
You ask them...
just to know who's living there.
-Right.
It's like a census,
only you're doing it
in the middle of the night,
in people's houses,
with a gun pointed at their face.
I mean, we gathered the people
and pointed a gun at them
and they still offered us tea.
I was like, "Oh my God,
who am I to go into the home
"of people who could be my grandparents,
in the middle of the night,
"and ask for their ID?"
It really shook me.
Don't know.
Interacting with the civilian population
is really unpleasant.
Will you keep doing that?
Don't know.
I want to say no,
but I should be there.
As a balancing force?
Yeah, and because
I prefer to be the one in power...
Show me some ID.
To be the one with that authority,
instead of someone else.
When do we leave on the mission?
I think we...
after sunset we'll get organized.
We'll probably leave around 2:00, 3:00 AM.
Can you believe that we finished basic training
and made it to the field
and that now we're going on an arrest together?
Can I believe it?
I didn't think it would happen, but...
I thought I'd be in jail for a while,
before I ended up here.
I knew there'd be a lot
of weekend confinements.
I didn't think about jail. No way.
There were quite a few.
-Wow.
It was really annoying when...
When you want to,
you can be the best soldier in the platoon.
You can run the fitness test
faster than anyone,
but you'd run it
and then stop in the middle for a smoke.
I mean, it depended
on your mood that day, and that sucked
because now...
-It wasn't about my mood,
it was about their attitude that day.
If they came to me with a "Good morning"...
-Moshe, how do people greet you each morning?
God forbid I get a soldier like that.
How do they approach you?
They beg you to get up.
"Moshe, please get up..."
-Fine, fine.
But you can talk to us like people,
"Get up, take half an hour to get organized
before morning inspection."
No, no.
3A, rousting drill!
Wake up, come on, get up!
Moshe, come on, get up.
Moshe.
This is real, Moshe. Let's go.
Almog, let's go.
Wake up.
Fuck this.
Alright, Moshe. Get up.
The platoon will stand at attention
to receive the commanders. Attention!
Get in formation, Moshe.
Weapon in both arms, Moshe.
You know what?
Take off that strap.
Take off that strap
and give it here.
What is it?
Calm down.
-I am calm.
Don't talk back.
Moshe, get a grip.
Stop it.
-Enough, Moshe. -Fuck this.
Stop it, Moshe.
Moshe, stop it. Put away that cigarette.
Fuck them. I've got nothing to lose.
-Stop it. Get back into formation.
Stop it.
How much time do we have?
-We don't. Come on.
Stay here.
If I hadn't watched over you,
you would have ended up in jail.
Are you the most troublesome kid?
Not troublesome. The...
cutest kid in my family.
Interesting.
You wish.
I'm Almog, this is Moshe.
-Moshe.
This is the army, not high school.
Get a grip
and stand like you should.
In the end you'll be best soldier ever.
Go on, Na'ama. You can do it.
Basic training wouldn't be the same
if we didn't have this connection.
At the end of the day, I think
that if this battalion was exactly the same
but had no girls in it,
your conduct would be terrible.
Of course.
Let's be honest,
a lot of the time
you only did things to prove to us...
Sure, but...
-That we couldn't do it.
Sure.
Fine, I like the competition.
I mean, we just did a company drill.
You see a fucking girl
walking with 65 lbs. on her back.
You're dead on your feet,
but she keeps going.
You look at that and say,
"How come she's walking and I can't?
"How come?"
It drives me crazy.
And that energizes me.
Sometimes I didn't have the strength
for a lot of things,
but the fact that you didn't either
made me power through.
Because if I couldn't do it,
how could I lecture Moshe
about not doing what he should?
I had to do it,
or I couldn't lecture you.
I mean...
It happened a lot.
For a lot of people, the army
is like a second chance
to reset their lives
and do it all over again,
no matter who they were before.
That was your chance.
It was more than a chance.
It allowed me to fix a lot of things.
It made me a better person at home.
I think twice before crossing the street.
I don't jay walk,
because I'm in uniform.
Really?
-All sorts of stuff.
I never thought I'd hear you say that.
Do you feel like you could
get through the next two years?
That you've found your place?
Yeah. Honestly, I really like it here
in the battalion.
Yeah? You like being in the field?
-Yeah, I really do.
Knowing you, I think
this period is the most...
-It's the best time I've ever had.
Yeah?
-Without a doubt.
The best time of my life.
This is what I've been waiting for.
To enlist, to be a combat soldier, all that.
To represent something.
To be a part of something.
Forget the representation.
Even when I'm out of uniform
I think...
A 13-year-old kid shouldn't see me
throwing a cigarette on the floor,
shouldn't think that's what soldiers are like.
I can't walk around with my shirt untucked
and have a bereaved mother
see me and say,
"My son died for that uniform."
Right.
-I can't. -True.
Did you ever think
you'd say things like that?
Never.
-Me neither. -Never.
Will you stay?
After your two years are up?
Maybe.
Really?
-Who's to say?
Alright, we've got that arrest.
They'll probably tell us to get going soon.
-Let's go.
Alright.
My equipment's in my room.
But take the vest.
Aren't you a combat soldier?
Goddamn.
Tonight we are going
to make an arrest in Tayasir.
This is our company's sector.
And this is our platoon's area of interest.
Our target is here.
We've got a back entrance
inside a yard
and the front entrance right here.
As far as we know,
based on the photographs,
there's a hallway here.
That hallway is one of our potential
escape routes.
We're going to station
two units along the escape route.
Got it?
We'll chase him down, flank and capture him.
I realized suddenly
that the time for games is over,
and that...
it's really happening.
There's always the possibility we'll have
to fight a terrorist at point-blank range,
but this is what we trained for.
I believe that when it comes down to it,
everyone will do the right thing
to neutralize the terrorist.
That's it. Any questions?
All clear?
Then let's go get ready. Quickly.
This is where you prove yourself
as a combat soldier.
Have you got the gas?
Distribute it however you want.
Head count.
Head count.
Magazines in.
Confirm safety.
Deputy 2, this is Vanguard Commander.
Green.
Vanguard Commander, this is Deputy 2.
Permission to advance.
We started moving.
We were silent.
No one said a word.
The only thing you could hear was...
white noise from the radio.
Other than that, we heard nothing.
Commander 1, this is Command.
Quiet, secure movement
towards the populated area.
Report when you're ready. Out.
Command 1, this is Deputy.
We've got wheels approaching, take cover.
It's here, no?
3, 3A, what's your location?
I've joined up with Peleg.
We're deploying soldiers
around the house.
I will join you
for the building sweep.
Roger, over.
3, 3A, over,
we've began our sweep
for the suspected targets.
Make sure to follow ID protocols
if you reach the target.
Roger, over.
Stay with me.
Sweep.
Stand.
-Stop.
Command, this is Deputy.
We've got him.
Alright, this is it.
Turn off the camera.