Introducing: PRETEND: Chain of Command Part 1

Nobody Should Believe Me

True Story Media

Society & Culture, True Crime, Personal Journals

4.2 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1996, Sarah DeJonghe was a 20-year-old Navy Seabee stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Two guys in uniform approached her on base and invited her to church. She said no. They came back anyway. Four months later, Sarah was out of the Navy and on her way to a Bible seminary in Washington State. She didn't see it coming. Neither did the dozens of other military members who found themselves drawn into the New Testament Christian Churches of America, a church that has spent decades planting itself outside US military bases around the world, marketing itself as a home away from home for single, lonely soldiers. Former members say it's a cult. *** Listen to PRETEND now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chain-of-command-part-1/id1245307962 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	True Story Media.
0:09.4	Hello, it's Andrea, and I have a very special treat today from my friend Javier Lava, the host of Pretend.
0:16.5	I know that many of you already know Pretend, but if you don't, it's an investigative true
0:21.1	crime podcast about con artists and people pretending to be someone else.
0:25.5	Javier's new series is called Chain of Command.
0:28.6	It's about two churches that have spent decades specifically targeting members of the U.S.
0:32.8	military.
0:33.8	Former members describe textbook cult tactics, financial exploitation, and a structure that makes it nearly impossible to leave.
0:41.3	And the story only gets darker from there in ways that I think you'll find very familiar.
0:46.8	We will be right back with episode one of Chain of Command from Pretent.
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