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Source: https://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Passion-to-protect-570294
IDF's Coed Battalions Secure Israel's Borders
(Jerusalem Post) Seth J. Frantzman - Bardelas is the most recent of four coed combat battalions in the Israel Defense Forces that have formed in the last decade and a half. Lt.-Col. Shachar Nahmani, the Bardelas commander and a former paratrooper, speaks with glowing admiration of the coed combat battalions. "I love these units. The soldiers do really good work and activity every day. The best." The unit's current deployment is guarding the Egyptian border from smugglers and ISIS. Nahmani says that his unit, made up of roughly equal numbers of men and women, can do any of the activities of other combat units and stresses that the soldiers are qualified in diverse positions, such as having their own snipers.