The IDF, which recently announced an update on Austere Shield, is establishing a new command to supervise “depth” operations, the “Depth Corps Force”. The new command authority will be commanded by a Major General. It’s first commander, MG Shai Avital, will be the former chief of Sayaret Matkal unit, who will be responsible for coordinating and executing multidisciplinary missions outside Israel’s borders.
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While this isn’t an EOD project, it is a counter-IED exercise pairing the US Army’s 42nd Route Clearance Company and the Bundeswehr’s 441st Mechanized Infantry Brigade Rout Clearance Team in a classic Engineer mission.
Although in typical AFN fashion the clip is short on details, it does remind us how important our engineer forces are in providing route clearanceIt also shows that new equipment has been developed for this mission and some of it was adapted from EOD.
Thanks from SSD to all the folks in the Counter-IED business!
