Shannon Pettypiece is senior policy reporter for NBC News digital.
Erin Williams has jumped out of airplanes, led a platoon in Afghanistan and earned an Ivy League degree with three young children at home. But the hardest thing to navigate in her military career is finding child care. “Child care is the only thing that has made me consider leaving military service,” said Williams, an Army officer who is currently serving at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
Mia Reisweber, who works remotely in higher education and whose husband is also in the Army, said she’s been on a perpetual loop of child care waitlists for the past eight years. When her first son was born, she spent around a year on the waitlist for the base’s child care center and had to fly out her mother to help bridge the gap so she and her husband could return to work.
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