The heat, which topped 100 degrees earlier in the day, has subsided on this May evening as we go on our massa, or night patrol, through trails of the Negev Desert, on the outskirts of Bahalatz, a base for the Israeli Army's combat engineers.
Carrying unloaded M-16s, we march in a zig-zag formation, five feet or so diagonally behind the man in the next line and twice that distance from the man in front of us in our own line. We...
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