 During the Six-Day War, Bodinger served as a Vautour pilot and participated in Operation Moked, attacking airfields in Iraq and Egypt and destroying 10 Tupolev Tu-16 bombers on the ground.During the Yom Kippur War, he was a Mirage III pilot, and shot down a Syrian MiG-17.During post-war conflicts, he shot down a Syrian MiG-21 over Lebanon.