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What does it take to become a combatant soldier in the Israeli army? How does it change you? Join four Israeli youngsters - Yosef, Benda, Ran and Evya - on their long quest to be all they can be.
Everyone wants to join Givati's special commando unit, but out of hundreds of candidates only a few can make the cut. Will our boys succeed? First they have to prove their physical and mental endurance in a 45 hour challenge. Good luck.
How does it feel to shoot a rifle for the first time? How do you navigate at night when all comms are down? And… what do you eat on the battlefield? Our boys are excited to make their first steps as combatant soldiers and commando fighters. But one of them is about to learn that being highly motivated is not enough.
A couple of months into their training, our guys are now real soldiers. They've already gotten used to the drills, they've learned how to get into formation, they even trained against a chemical attack. But being a soldier is not all action. Kitchen duty anyone?
In our second season premiere, we encounter the soldiers in the midst of a military operation near Gaza. Eviatar and Ran are busy securing routes and defending towns while rockets and mortars whizz by over their heads; Yosef undergoes training as a Namer APC machine gunner, while Roi, “Benda”, is back home, where he has to deal both with the threat of rockets and a troublesome shoulder dislocation that casts doubt over his continued combat duty service.
While the guys learn to fight as a team, Benda is busy with his own personal battle. Will he manage to convince the doctors and commanders to keep him in the unit as an elite fighter, or will he have to kiss his military career goodbye?
They've worked so hard to get the purple beret, but now that it’s just a stone’s throw away, comes the realization that it might not be enough. Will the doctors and commanders allow Benda to stay? Will Eviatar manage to conquer the obstacle course? With only days away from the march to the purple beret, tensions are running high.
In the opening episode, Ran goes to Squad Commander Training and takes the departure of the team hard. Evya and Yosef are in the Rotem Battalion training before operational employment and are debating whether to go to the Squad Commander Training, and Roy "Banda" returns after dislocating his shoulder and becomes a professional in the team, but the injury reduces his chances of going to the course.
The tragic story of the Squad Commanders Training: Yosef and Evya starts the course but do not finish it as they had hoped and expected. Surprisingly and against all plans, Ran returns to his team at the end of the course and acts as a sergeant of his friends.
