[gitmo]

The woman is a 21-years-old single mom, who was almost on her way to Afghanistan. However, she is not the only one. A report released last month says 30,000 single mothers have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.

They chose to join the military, right?

[JimWayne]

They chose to join the military, right?

Probably chose to get pregnant with the hope of avoiding deployment, but the attempt did not work?

[jocon307]

“They chose to join the military, right?”

Yes, but the military has also chosen them. I’m very disturbed at the number of mothers, and esp. single mothers deployed into battle zones.