idk anything about israel specifically but operating near large military vehicles really is dangerous and takes a lot of training and discipline to do it well under fire, infantry are usually in concealed cover positions and vehicle crew have limited visibility (with the hatches closed during combat especially) and completely overwhelmed hearing, idk the stats but i've heard from people in the military that especially in training exercises being run over is a common cause of death - there will be soldiers asleep camping in the field or passed out from exhaustion on a march and tank drivers drive right over them without even realizing. it should ideally be less common in combat because of radio communication and coordinated movement (in combat, everyone there is there to do the same/related jobs, where in training its a bunch of unrelated training groups doing different things in the same area), so this is still probably evidence of poor quality troops if not poor leadership and communications.
Correct combined arms tactics require infantry to be a few hundred meters in front of armored vehicles. It doesn't work if they cower behind the armor like scared little piggies.
Imagining yakety sax playing while an APC chases around a squad of their own soldiers before running them over.
That might be why their armored vehicles don't have infantry escorts. They keep running them over.
idk anything about israel specifically but operating near large military vehicles really is dangerous and takes a lot of training and discipline to do it well under fire, infantry are usually in concealed cover positions and vehicle crew have limited visibility (with the hatches closed during combat especially) and completely overwhelmed hearing, idk the stats but i've heard from people in the military that especially in training exercises being run over is a common cause of death - there will be soldiers asleep camping in the field or passed out from exhaustion on a march and tank drivers drive right over them without even realizing. it should ideally be less common in combat because of radio communication and coordinated movement (in combat, everyone there is there to do the same/related jobs, where in training its a bunch of unrelated training groups doing different things in the same area), so this is still probably evidence of poor quality troops if not poor leadership and communications.
My and the whole squad hiding behind the tank hoping It doesn't back up and mulch us
Correct combined arms tactics require infantry to be a few hundred meters in front of armored vehicles. It doesn't work if they cower behind the armor like scared little piggies.
war is hell, and also really fucking stupid
get wrecked losers
Benny Hill music plays
guarantee at least one of them was a driver that didn't engage the parking brake on a hill