I will have to ask my friend who is in the IDF about how they train deaf soldiers. I was just assuming that a buddy system, or, deaf units (thus my "segregation" comment) was utilized there, but I don't really know. This should be an interesting research prjoect.
This IDF soldier has been one of my father's good friends for many years - they develop software together for computer games (yeah, they act like 7 year old boys when they are together 
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