15 October 2013

That's what you do when you have to

Not for the first time, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz helped out at an accident scene, unconnected with the military. Apparently, he "had been on the way home from dinner when he passed a car that had collided with the safety rail. He and his security attaché stopped to evacuate the driver from the car and began giving him medical assistance until paramedics arrived" The Times of Israel tells us here. The article details three other occasions when Gantz has done this, once when a woman in a restaurant had a stroke and fainted. He and his security detail provided medical aid until the parademics arrived.

The other two occasions were military-related. As the official IDF statement put it, “That is exactly what an officer is expected to do when he arrives at the scene of an accident. Even if he is not in uniform, it is on him to do all that he can to help.”

Or, in plain English, be a mensch and act like a good citizen.

Or as I say in the heading, that's what you do when you have to.

By Brian Goldfarb.

9 comments:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That's what you do if you know how, and the CoS certainly ought to know how.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Whoa, somebody's thinking.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Heh, that is funny. I had no idea those guys were mooning the Canucks.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That one does, at least. I am not so sure about one who was a jet jockey.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

;-)

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Me too.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That is very good! Can you imagine what would have happened if he had not helped and the press found out.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Yeah. Something of the kind (not helping) happened to Ehud Barack some years ago. Not being guilty of anything, he carried the stain for years and years.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

LtGen. Gantz sets an outstanding example of what is expected from a member of the IDF. It is good for people to remember that life saving skills can become necessary at any time. Also the need to save someone even at the risk of their own life. This happened one morning here in DC back in the mid-1990s when a driver swerved off the road and went into the Potomac River. A Marine Colonel who was behind her, got out of his car, swam and rescued her.