. >> professor laura brodard. who is that? >> that is sergeant jacalyn bravado, a marine who went over to the iraq iraq. she told me that she had a lot of anxiety about going. she wanted to stay with her daughter at home. as soon as she got on the bus to get to cherry point and fly out she said the mommy mentality left me and the marine mentality hit me. i was ready to go to war. she really wanted to redeploy. her mother is not crazy about that, saying your daughter has only one childhood. she told me, you know, you can always be a mommy. you don't always get the opportunity to be a marine. >> in your september, portraits of women combat veterans, combat veteran. >> everyone in the military knows that women are in combat. we have the ban on combat, but that is meaningless in a war where there are very few clear distinctions between friendly lines and your support. >> what does this sergeant? >> she worked with helicopters on the line as they came in and out. not every woman that i interviewed had a job that put her directly in