Unit 669
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The Unit 669 is a heliborne combat search and rescue extraction unit, subordinate to the 7th Wing of the Israeli Air Force.
Unit 669 heliborne MEDEVAC display during IAF cadet graduation ceremony.
669 operative in cliff rescue display
Unit 669 rescue divers training in the Mediterranean.
Special forces of Israel
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Special forces units in the Israel Defense Forces encompass a broad definition of specialist units. Such units are usually a regiment or a battalion in strength.
Unit 669
…pilots beyond lines. However, in later years the unit also participated in extraction of soldiers of other arms of the Israel Defense Forces, especially Sayeret (Special Forces) fighters in operations beyond enemy lines and seamen in distress. Unit 669 operated in the Gaza war, according to the Israeli Air…
Ariel Sharon (left), and Aharon Davidi (center), before a reprisal operation, 1955.
Israeli officers of the Paratrooper Battalion 890 in 1955 with Moshe Dayan (standing, third from the left). Ariel Sharon is standing, second from the left and commando Meir Har Zion is standing furthest left.
Shayetet 13 commandos prepare for an exercise aboard a warship
Egoz operators blend into the landscape of the Golan Heights.