Tina was trying to make ends meet before she decided to join the army. She was attending school and held three jobs while taking care of her 2-year-old daughter. "I'd had enough," she said. "It was an escape." She went to Afghanistan for one year and she could go back at any point because of her contract. I asked her what it was like in Afghanistan. "You're expecting the worst possible thing in the world. You're expecting hell," she said. "When I got there I found people in general were normal people just trying to make it day to day."
