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Old IDF Reservists Create a New Tank Battalion
(Times of Israel) Sue Surkes - A group of soldiers long since released from the army and a collection of tanks no longer in use have been brought together to create Phoenix, a new armored tank battalion that is already seeing action in Gaza. Grasping that the army needed more tanks, Maj. (res.) Dan Levit and reserve officer Erez Sa'adon located a list of 95 vehicles that had been decommissioned by the military and went from base to base to try to move the aging machines. The army concluded it could make 10 of them operational within three days, and that more could be made ready later on. "We found 24 tanks," Levit said. The head of the Armored Corps asked, "But what about people?" "So we wrote a message on WhatsApp that we were looking for people. Within 24 hours, 650 volunteers had come forward." Soon the group had assembled three tank companies. Seeing their success, the army now wanted nine.