Ovda airbase assignment

We were assigned to an Air Force base

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovda_Airbase
This base is just north of Eliat., it took a 4 hr bus trip to get here. On the way down passed the Ramon crater. We traveled south, further south than I ever ventured in Israel. The base is in the middle of nowhere. Lovely sunsets that I can't take pictures of. However pictured is the front entrance and on the way saw a solar furnace generator plant.

The IDF soldiers are so young, hard to believe these kids work with the most sophisticated weapons. Many secret projects and missions come from this base.

Lots of different small job, such as:
- boxing uniforms
- warehouse organizing, got to use an electric forklift.
- boxing supplies
-working stocking the Air Force store
-removing and organizing palates

In the first evening we had an IDF reprentative for air defence. See recording:
https://recorder.google.com/bdd8536f-e6e6-429a-…

Tues night we worked out then had a soccer match
https://recorder.google.com/bdd8536f-e6e6-429a-…

Today went on base tour, got to see and question about an F16 in a secure bunker Then we worked with head Rabbi to clean a warehouse that had sukkah and other materia tossed around like garbage. Sue was very moved by organizing and rolling the sach.
It was such a mess. I was frustrated by a second Rabbi that joined that whatever junk I showed him, he would say 'no garbage, no garbage ', I finally picked up some broken glass, he looks angrily at me and says no garbage, and then smiled and said garbage.

A bunch of cadets passed their flight controller training, so we stopped working went to the roadside and clapped for the them. They blew kisses and we argued who appreciated who more

Just got a tour of their flight controller simulator. It is a room with 360° monitors that can display any airforce base runway. It is so cool, so many scenarios can be demonstrated to trainees. The IDF seems to share so much info with us, rarely will they not answer a question
Tomorrow is our travel to Tel-aviv day.Okumaya devam et