Translation of Military Terms
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Hello dear military subreddit,
I'm currently working on a translation of an account of an experience in the IDF from Hebrew to English. I've struggled with a lot of terms but a few of these I couldn't resolve at all. I wonder if I could find the answers I'm seeking here.
- There's a term called misdar which I think should be translated as "muster". Reading the dictionary definition of the term I am not completely certain that it means exactly the same thing, however, though in practice it might. In the IDF a misdar is an inspection. It has a point in time when it starts. In preparation to it the soldiers groom themselves, clean their guns, clean their quarters, other spaces, vehicles and so on. At the beginning of the misdar they should either stand in attention by their bed or all together in rows in say the company grounds, at which points the commanders would start scrutinizing them and their cleaning. Is that what a "muster" is? Partially? Not at all?
- The second one is a term for something quite simple, but I just simply couldn't find a term for it in English. In Hebrew there's the verbal expression lehistader be'heth meaning "to get arranged in a heth", heth being the eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Heth looks like uppercase pi (Π), and so what it means is to "stand in an arrangement of a square missing one edge", where each edge is one row deep. Doesn't quite roll off one's tongue. Usually a commander/instructor would stand in the middle of the "missing edge" and talk to the soldiers. Is there a term for such a formation in English?
- Another term relates to a phenomenon occurring mostly in training. The term is liftoah shaon, meaning "to set up a (wrist) watch". The commanders would use this expression before indicating (1) how many seconds the trainees have to accomplish a certain task and (2) the task to be accomplished. Basically a standardized expression with which commands and their conditions are issued in training. Is there some equivalent?
Thank you!
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