Posted on 07/30/2007 6:53:53 AM PDT by george76
A year after Cpl. Gilad Schalit was abducted by Hamas terrorists, a sleeping Golani infantry soldier was left behind following an operation in the Gaza Strip last week and was only located after his unit had already returned to Israel.
According to the preliminary investigation, when the soldiers counted down to ensure that they were all present, one of the soldiers accidentally called out the missing soldier's number.
After realizing that the soldier had been left behind, the battalion commander immediately alerted other units deployed along the border to ensure that the soldier was not be mistakenly identified as a Palestinian gunman and shot.
After searching for close to an hour, the soldier, who fired tracer bullets into the air and was waving a florescent stick-light, was located some 700 meters inside Palestinian territory. The soldiers who found him said he was exhausted and scared.
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A new twist on “you snooze, you lose.” That’s one very lucky soldier there.
There’s always one poor jerk who doesn’t get the memo.
“...one of the soldiers accidentally called out the missing soldier’s number. “
Or maybe intentional.
That is what I was thinking, maybe to cover for his buddy?
Which means he or one of the other soldiers also had to call out his own number otherwise the unit would have still been one short. Someone has some explaining to do.
Either that or his “buddies” intentionally wanted Schalit to get left behind to teach him a lesson for sleeping on duty. Anyway, I’m guessing he won’t ever do that again.
Someone has some explaining to do because unless the author left something out of the story, a variety of charges could be brought up to attempted murder.
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