[Avodah] [Areivim] chareidi soldiers in zahal

[Rich, Joel]

And if it had been a female communication specialist, or a female medic, or a female tracker or a whatever, they would have had an issue?

Taking it out of the emergency chasing-a-terrorist situation here, I can't really figure out what halachik issue there could possibly be to have a female pilot fly you around anyway. Yichud doesn't make sense. Maybe negiya if you're pressed up close, which would possibly apply to a medic or another soldier in your platoon, but not to a pilot, but then, if the medic is working on you, it's probably ok anyway.

Maybe just pure concerns for hirhurim, but then you would really expect soldiers on a mission to be focused on the mission. Or maybe with all the testosterone from in-the-heat battle it would be a bigger concern than normal?
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My Occam's razor says the best guess is that they were taught lo plug (perhaps like adam to chavah don't eat/don't touch - and we know where that ended up)
KT
Joel Rich
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