The narrow streets and tall cement buildings of theworld-renowned IDF Urban Warfare Training Center echoed with shouts in flawless English asUS Marines delve into another close-quarters-battle drill.
As part of theongoing cooperation between the Israeli Defense Forces and the US Armed Forces stationed in Europe, a company of US Marines came to Israel for a month of intensive training at IDF facilities and alongside IDF soldiers. Dividing their time between the Adam Base in central Israel and the Tze'elim Base in the south, the soldiers trained in urban and cautious warfare, reconnaissance, and at various shooting ranges.