CONSPIRACY: Women in the U.S. Military

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🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In 2010, statistics came out that 120 female U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq had died. Half of those deaths were reported to be non-combat related. 30 those non-combat related deaths were ruled suicides, but there is evidence to suggest many of them may have actually been murders. In this episode, we dive into the case of LaVena Johnson and other women of the U.S. military who died very suspicious deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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0:00.0	Hey Crime Junkies, I am back to tell you a crazy story this week. A story of systematic
0:06.6	cover-ups in the US military that I think will shock you. This is one of those episodes where I
0:12.2	walk away thinking why isn't everyone talking about this? So I need you to help get people
0:18.3	talking about this. Please share this episode on your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Help get people
0:24.4	informed about how the US military is covering up the murders of their female soldiers.
0:55.4	I want to start this story today by telling you about the very first story I learned about,
1:06.2	which brought my attention to all of these cases. It's the story of LaVina Johnson.
1:12.0	LaVina was a very smart young girl who grew up as the fourth of five children in Missouri.
1:17.8	After high school, LaVina told her dad that she wanted to join the military to help pay for
1:21.9	her education. Now, her parents did have money, but LaVina was talking about going to an out-of-state
1:26.9	school in California, and she didn't want to put that burden on her parents, so she enrolled in
1:31.9	the US military. After all, her dad was a veteran, and LaVina wanted to continue the family tradition.
1:38.3	By the time July of 2005 rolls around, LaVina had been stationed in Iraq for about eight weeks.
1:44.7	She tries to write home as frequently as she can, telling her parents about the conditions in Iraq.
1:49.6	She tells them it's super hot, like really, really hot, but the nights there are beautiful.
1:55.9	When she first got there, she tells her parents that they made all of the soldiers
1:59.6	dump out their belongings and personal items like shampoo and soap, and they were forced to
2:04.4	re-buy everything in the military store. There are also some early signs of the disrespect that
2:10.7	LaVina and other women in the armed forces were facing. She wrote that when she got there,
2:15.3	at first they were called female warriors, but as time went on, they were just called females,
2:21.1	and then eventually they were called soul, because it's only half of a soldier.
2:25.8	Despite the sometimes derogatory way in which she and other women were treated,
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