____________________________________________ 9 IICC Perspectives forensic logic. How do you handle items from a crime scene with no training, no gear? Nothing!" The next mission for the unit commander would be to convince the army that there was such a thing as the CED Unit. On the first night it rained, and everything had been left outside. The team rushed to open the bags and boxes, dropped to their knees and tried to understand what was inside and how urgent it was to identify items which could help the forces on the ground. The rain got worse and someone brought a wooden frame covered with a tarp which flew off in the wind within minutes. Most of the material got soaked, and there was no enclosed space to continue processing it. A tent was brought, then another, and as more material piled up, larger tents. Within a few days, the entire area looked like one big encampment, with sorting lines and filtering stations set up inside the tents to identify and direct items for further handling. Some of the material, soaked from the rain, stinking and contaminated, was clipped with clothes pins to dry on improvised laundry racks set up in the field. Others were thoroughly sprayed to get rid of the odor. At the same time, efforts began to organize and structure the unit. A former adjutant from Unit 8200 arrived, another from Field Intelligence and another officer from the IDF's personnel division. People showed up regardless of their civilian status, salary, former rank or military background. They simply arrived and slotted themselves into the chain of the mission, making sure everything ran smoothly. No ego, no posturing, no favoritism, just doing what needed to be done. In no time, an industrial-scale production line was set up to handle both the growing amount of material and the volunteers arriving. D.: "It was clear to me that to manage the operation and the growing number of people, we needed to expand. We began to appropriate space around Glilot, opened more offices, more classrooms, and not always through official channels… sometimes we broke down doors and did what had to be done. Most of the places were empty, everyone had rushed to the war, and we needed work space. Eventually, we started bringing in shipping containers. One after another. In the end, we had a container city where we stored everything we could. The IDF archive stores only paper. So what do we do with all the computers, hard drives, cameras, radios? Everything is still in the containers, secured, catalogued, and organized by front and by date." ***
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