She was deployed last month to "somewhere in the area of Pakistan".
She was "deployed to defend the indefensible," said Pablo Alvarado, whose day laborer organization was repeatedly at odds with her.
Havrilla, who told the committee she was deployed 99% of the time as the only female, said: "The hostility is not towards women.
In 17 years of military service (in the Army Reserve and National Guard), she was deployed several times, including for humanitarian trips and training missions to Guyana, Iceland and Egypt.
She was all those things, plus cross-dressing and opposed to the war in Iraq, while she was deployed to Baghdad, working in computer intelligence to advance that very war.
"I mean, I've been to every early state," she told me, when I asked her about reports that she was "deployed" in the South to reach black audiences.
TEANECK, N.J. — During the 10 months she was deployed in Iraq, Leydi Mendoza, a 22-year-old specialist in the New Jersey National Guard, did everything she could think of to ease her longing for the year-old daughter she had left back home.
Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, whose case Close Read has looked at before, had, as all single parents in the military are required to, a plan in place for what to do with her baby son, Kamani, if she was deployed.
In 2005, a month after she completed training, she was deployed to Baghdad, where she lived in the Green Zone and did "cryptological linguistics," she says, declining to spell out exactly what that means.
She was deployed to France a short time later despite an SOE training report describing her as "not over-burdened with brains" and "unsuited to work in her field".
