Desert navigation

When my brother was in a cetain unit in the IDF that shall remain nameless, they had what is known as a company drill - where a whole company navigates in the desert from A to B.

They sent a crew of three people in front as a "spearhead'. Those people's code name for the drill was "fox"; they were supposed to lead the way.

After a while the following conversation took place over the radio:

- "Fox, this is platoon commander. DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE HELL YOU ARE GOING??!"

- "Negative, over".

you can imagine what happened next.

by Avital Pilpel.

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