(RedState) Jennifer Van Laar - A quarter of the 40 U.S. Army soldiers who were in Israel as the advance team for a routine training exercise last Oct. 7 were just miles from Gaza in off-base housing near the IDF's Tze'elim base when the Hamas attack began. A group of local Israelis - IDF reservists, police officers, and ordinary citizens - got them to the base, which Hamas terrorists were quickly heading toward. With his men in mortal danger, the U.S. team leader requested permission to open the arms locker so they could retrieve their firearms, but this was denied by U.S. Central Command. The rest of the soldiers arrived in Tel Aviv, where Hamas rockets were hitting near their hotels. Some 40 hours after the attacks started, a U.S. Air Force C-17 briefly touched down in Tel Aviv to exfiltrate the soldiers.
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