Women as military journalists?

Question

My older sister wants to be a military journalist but is worried that it's morally wrong. All right, so women aren't Biblically allowed to be in combat and aren't legally allowed to anyway, but who says being a military journalist is wrong? That isn't in the Bible anywhere. I do not enjoy the idea of women being good for nothing except repopulating and getting in the kitchen to making pie for their husbands. Is my sister right, from a Biblical viewpoint?

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Answer 1

If your sister enlists in the military and actually gets this job she is never going to be front and center in Iraq. Junior people like her would most likely be putting together the base newspaper in the states or overseas. She will be taking stupid surveys of personnel asking them stupid moral questions like what they are going to do for Holloween. Her job would be way more like working on the high school newspaper than anything else. Your sister is wack in her biblical thinking. What bible are you guys reading anyway? Seems like she is more swayed by some church clergy at your antiwar church than anything that is actually written anywhere in the bible. If it was in the bible anywhere to keep woman out of the military do you think we would have the hundreds and hundreds of Chaplains of every denomination, male and female, serving in ALL branches of the military? Nope. Her religious issues would actually keep her out of the military because it sounds like she is a pretty strong consciencious objector and we don't enlist those.

Answer 2

Women are not allowed to join jobs that are considered combat Arms. Jobs like Infantry, Calvary, and Combat engineer, But they can serve in what is called combat support jobs like, cooks, medics, supply, and military journalist. The fact of the matter is females are in combat everyday just like the men. A example of this is our patrols that went out each day had a female medic. She served right beside the Combat Engineers with pride and Honor. There are plenty of female military journalist out there. There is nothing stopping her from being a military journalist. Tell her i said " Thank you for choosing to serve our great nation".

Answer 3

Not sure where in the Bible it mentions anything about women being in combat. So, biblically, I think she should be good.

I'm a SFC in the Army and have worked with a few military journalists. They are normally pretty safe in the US military. They go out every now and then, but typically stay on the big, safe military posts in Iraq.

Answer 4

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I don't think religious texts have a stand on women being war reporters, I don't actually see how that could be morally wrong in any way at all. Other than the fact that you are filming people's struggles, instead of helping people.

Other than that, I think that men have traditionally done the war reporting simply because they are the more physically suitable to the job itself. Some time ago I was watching my local news (New Zealand news) and a war reporter was doing his talking, when a firefight between a handful or rebels and some tanks broke out right behind him, and as you can imagine in situations like that you would have to by phycially robust and strong, not to mention being a black-belt in the most important martial art - running.

Hope I helped!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Women have been war correspondents for many years even though it is usually considered a male job.

During the Second Indochina (Vietnam) War I knew of several---
Kate Webb (a British/New Zealander) worked for UPI in Vietnam, Cambodia and Hong Kong.
Sylvana Foa, an American, worked for UPI in Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong.
Elizabeth Becker, an American, worked for UPI and NBC in Cambodia and now works for the NYT.
Tracey Wood, an American, worked for UPI in Vietnam and Cambodia.
There was a husband & wife team from the "Christian Science Monitor' who covered Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
There also was an American-Chinese husband and wife team working for CBS in Cambodia 1971-72.
There was Susan Purcell, a British woman, who occasionally did freelance work for UPI and others while her husband worked for Reuters in Cambodia in 1971 to mid 1973.

During WW-2

Lorraine Stumm (later Palmer), a British/Australian, was the only female reporter to cover the war from inside Papua New Guinea for the London Daily Mail.
There was Nancy Wake, an Australian journalist working in France, who became one of the worlds most decorated women fighting in the French Resistance.

There were many others from different countries who covered wars, many from the front lines.

I suggest you read the following book.
"Women War Correspondents in the Vietnam War, 1961-1975", by Virginia Elwood-Akers, The Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1988.

Answer 7

Your sister is going to have to send me a reference out of the King James Version because I haven't seen it and I think I would have by now. I've had a couple of female friends who were military journalists (that's how we met but I digress) and both of them deployed to the sand box.