Posing serenely with her baby daughter in her arms and smiling proudly in her uniform, this is the indomitable Faye Turney.
The 25-year-old is a sea survival specialist who always dreamed of serving in the Armed Forces.
Speaking about her daughter, she told The Independent,
I know by doing this job I can give her everything she wants in life and hopefully seeing me doing what I do, she’ll grow up knowing a woman can have a family and have a career at the same time.
Unfortunately, Faye Turney, the mother being held in Tehran by Iran as one of 15 captives seized last Friday.
she had earlier became the first of the 15 British service personnel held captive in Iran to be named, after her family was said to be experiencing a ‘very distressing time’.
As the diplomatic stand-off grew increasingly tense yesterday, her husband Adam and three-year-old daughter Molly waited anxiously for news of her release at the family home in Plymouth.
Tony Blair, in the meantime, issued a stark warning to the Iranian government over the crisis.
She further said she will support her daughter if she too would be interested in the same profession.
The only other captive who has been named is 21-year-old Marine Paul Barton, from Southport, Merseyside.
His policeman father Mark and mother Melanie were reluctant to discuss the increasingly tense situation yesterday. But a neighbor said, ‘his family are very, very proud that Paul is serving in the military. But I don’t know how his mother is coping. She must be out of her mind with worry.’
However, friends said Mrs Turney’s devotion to her family and strength of character will carry her through the ordeal.
The youngest of five children, she married her petty officer husband at a village church in Oxon, Shropshire.
One neighbor said, Faye is a strong woman. She will be thinking of Adam and Molly and that will give her even more strength and determination.
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Just a Reminder–Faye is a SOLDIER who was captured by Iran, who happens to be a mother and a wife. She is no different from any other SOLDIER who enlists in the military. Women have fought to be treated as equals on all levels including in the military–so the next time a soldier is killed or captured, and they happen to be female, don’t make her out to be a wife and mother who was just minding her own business on the front lines, and was mowed down or kidnapped by a group of war-mongering males. She chose to be treated as an equal–a SOLDIER. Whoever decided on the tag line for this article is no better than the propagandists on the other side.