I was in the Airforce and was stationed stateside. Unfortunetly my career field requiered that, they took out the Nuclear missles in Turkey. My job in the Airforce was working on the Minuteman 3 nuclear missle silos while stationed at Malmstrom AFB, in Great Falls Montana.
I will be very honest with you, and I hope you do not get offended.
The military in my honest opinion is better suited for single people, and single people with no children.
The military is a very demanding career. All of your energy and focus will be towards your job in the service and to what branch of service one would choose to enlist in. Everything else will be second.
Your child deserves to have the best that you can offer physically,emotionally, and financially, especially since you are a single parent.
The military quite frankly is not very flexible with issues such as the one you are in, and rightfully so, they should not be, the military is charged with to protect the united states of america, and to serve the president of the united states, you being a female singel parent will find yourself in conflict naturally with these obligations. You would be more inclined naturally to want to put your child first instead of your service to the military and to the president of the united states.
Quite frankly not only yourself, but your child would be misserable, and your child would not get the best from you as its parent!
The military requires total dedication, I saw plenty of marriages split up when I was in the service, and I saw plenty of children not likeing the fact that there parent had to be gone from home for days on end. I am glad that I was young and single and had no children while I was in the service, it made things much simpler and easier.
I personally respect your desires to want to serve our nation, but I must be frank, dont do it, it will not be a good thing for you and your child.