Over the last decade, many nutritional improvements have been applied in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The variety of food was expanded, specific products were added to provide for special nutritional needs like in the vegan and celiac population, specific field ratios were added, and the mobilization of food and food equipment was improved. Moreover, specific guidelines were written and even dietitians were added to combat and commando units. However, these changes were not been fully assimilated into the dietary guidelines and common practical methods while dealing with the nutritional challenge mainly during basic and advanced training in combat units.
In order to close these gaps, it was clear that we needed to establish a method that would organize the nutritional support in combat units. In this presentation, the nutritional junction model will be presented, which was created to institutionalize nutrition management in combat units. This model links the nutritional guidelines, logistics, medical and command staff to nutrition management tools and techniques according to the different training weeks. Moreover, a novel digital platform designed to make the implementation easier will be presented.