Reply To: Does the IDF want Charedim?

I once spoke to a yeshiva bachur who was planning to enter the IDF and join an officer’s program.
When I warned him about the spiritual dangers he would be facing, he replied, “You don’t even know how right you are. When I applied, they told me, ‘You know, of course, that the mattress you will be receiving is accompanied by a female soldier!'”
But he went to the army anyway, and became non-religious.