 The law also provided for the establishment of the Gadna semi-military framework to prepare high school students for military service.The commanders, the "Mefakdim" or "Mefakdot" ( or , masculine and feminine plurals), who are sergeants and officers, wear either the green beret of the Nahal infantry brigade, (though they do not have the infantry badge on their beret, or the Nahal shoulder tag) or the general IDF green beret, wearing the Education and Youth Corps badge and tag instead.The commanders wear a brown braid on their left shoulders.