#lavena johnson

[morbidology]

LaVena Johnson, a determined and ambitious young woman, made the choice to enlist in the military shortly after completing high school in St. Louis County, Missouri, a decision that caused concern for her parents.

On the 18th of July, 2005, at the age of 19, LaVena reached out to her parents with the hopeful news that she would be returning from Iraq in time to spend Christmas at home. Tragically, her journey home was never realised, marking the beginning of one of the most troubling cases of injustice in contemporary history.

Just eight days shy of her 20th birthday, LaVena's lifeless body was discovered in her tent at a military base in Balad, Iraq. She had suffered a gunshot wound to the head, and her death was officially ruled as a suicide. However, disturbing revelations from the autopsy report and photographs painted a different, unsettling picture.

Alongside the gunshot wound, LaVena had a broken nose, bite marks, loose teeth, scratch marks, a black eye, and burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals. Suspicion arose that the chemical burn might have been an attempt to destroy DNA evidence related to a sexual assault.

LaVena's family and friends vehemently rejected the notion that she would have taken her own life. Standing at just 5'1", LaVena's service weapon was a 40-inch M-16, making it physically implausible for someone of her stature to manipulate the weapon into her mouth for a self-inflicted gunshot. Furthermore, two ballistic experts raised concerns, suggesting that the gunshot wound appeared too small to have been caused by an M-16 and instead resembled the work of a 9mm pistol.

LaVena's family continued to tirelessly pursue justice for their daughter, reaching out to mainstream media outlets for support. CBS sponsored a second autopsy, revealing that LaVena's neck had been broken. More disturbingly, it was discovered that part of her vagina, tongue, and anus had been removed—an alarming detail overlooked by the military's initial autopsy.

Despite the substantial efforts of CBS and ABC in investigating the case, they inexplicably discontinued their coverage. Speculation emerged that the military had intervened, potentially threatening to withdraw advertising support. As it stands, LaVena's death remains officially categorized as a suicide, while her family continues their unwavering fight for justice.

#lavena johnson #true crime #injustice

[ofsappho]

I have complicated feelings about the COD fandom fetishizing “barracks bunny” because of the sexual violence that women in the military face.

LaVena Johnson, Ana Basaldua Ruiz, Vanessa Guillen, countless other unnamed women. All of these soldiers were murdered or “committed suicide” after being raped/sexually assaulted/sexually harassed in the military.

The barracks bunny stereotype is a violently, murderously misogynistic stereotype that gets women killed.

And not just women in the military - wherever troops go, sexual violence, trafficking, and femicide increase.

A Marine at Camp Pendleton abducted a 14 year old Indigenous girl after purchasing her from an unnamed pimp and keeping her in the barracks to rape her! He kept her on that base for 24 hours before she was rescued and last week was charged with sexual assault. Military bases are highly guarded places. How would he have been able to keep a child in the barracks to rape without the knowledge and collusion of his fellow soldiers?

(Read more here)

Indigenous women and girls go missing and are found murdered at astronomically high rates because of racism, colonialism, and systemic abuse of Indigenous women/girls under both of those things.

The objectification and fetishization of Asian women by Western men is the direct result of Western militaries sex trafficking Asian women and girls in Asia before/during/after WW2 and forcing them into prostitution. Once these Asian women had been forced into prostitution, they had no other choice but to keep doing that and as time went on, this created a sex tourism industry in Asia specifically for foreign white men.

(Read more here)

In some cases, Western soldiers even took over the disgusting sex slavery camps the Japanese military enslaved Korean women/girls in during WW2 and kept those women imprisoned to serve the Western soldiers who were there to “liberate” them.

I could write a whole separate post about the sexual violence experienced by women and girls in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other places in the Middle East at the hands of Western soldiers. That wasn’t very long ago and it’s still going on today! We remember!

(Read more here)

(And you might be like: ofsappho, why do you care? I care because I have immediate family on both sides that survived Japanese occupations during WW2. I care because my family was directly impacted by the US chasing out the Japanese from Manila and what they did after. I care because there is a history of violence/abuse in my family of American soldiers exploiting native Filipina women. Real people, real women are affected by this issue and have been for decades.)

What I want most of all is for people to educate themselves on this. There’s a reason why these issues are hidden, overlooked, covered up, not spoken about, and that’s to enable this systemic abuse and permit it to go on.

If you are still able to stomach writing about barracks bunnies after researching this, then that is your choice and I accept it.

#mmiw #mmiwawareness #comfort women #vanessa guillen #cod #call of duty #lavena johnson #ana basalduariz #sexism #misogyny

[randomspider]

I watch a lot of true crime, but rarely am I as disgusted as I am today, this case needs to be reopened, this is nearly 20 years of injustice for an innocent woman and surely many other people we don't even know about

#justice for lavena #signal boost #true crime #lavena johnson #petition #raise awareness #important #serious talk #cw murder #cw death #cw true crime

[serious2020]

THE STORY of PFC LaVENA LYNN JOHNSON

One of the most heinous military murders & cover-ups in the U.S. youtu.be/7Gv6JQZ2sOk

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#African/Black experience #Afrikan #Anti-Blackness #corruption #LaVENA Lynn Johnson #lynching #militarized police #military murder & cover-up #murder #police terrorism #racial profiling #racism #rape #sexism #terrorism #torture #violence #War on Afrikans

[misspeculiar-principe]

[inmycity]

CONSPIRACY: Women in the U.S. Military

CONSPIRACY: Women in the U.S. Military

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…

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[241jackart]

Pat Tillman, LaVena Johnson and Vanessa Gilliam. If you don't know Google it (at Aurora, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1XLhyuaD7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[truly-hopeless]

#justice for LaVena #reopen the case

[morbidology]

LaVena Johnson was a very ambitious young girl who enrolled in the military as soon as she left high school, much to her parents dismay. On 18 July, 2005, 19-year-old LaVena called her parents to let them know that she would be leaving Iraq in time to be home for Christmas. Tragically, she never made it home and onset one of the most horrific cases of injustice in modern day history... 

Just eight days shy of LaVena’s 20th birthday, her bloody body was discovered in her tent at a military base in Balad, Iraq - she had sustained a gunshot wound to the head and her death was ruled as a suicide. However, the autopsy report and photographs revealed that LaVena also had a broken nose, bite marks, loose teeth, scratch marks, a black eye and burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals. It was also suspected that the chemical burn was an attempt to destroy DNA evidence from rape.

LaVena’s family and friends were adamant that LaVena would not take her own life. LaVena was only 5′1″ and her service weapon, which she supposedly shot herself in the mouth with, was a 40 inch M-16. It would be physically impossible for somebody of her height to maneuver the weapon into her mouth and shooting. Two ballistic experts reported that the gunshot wound looked too small to be from a M-16 but looked more like it came from a 9mm pistol. 

LaVena’s family continued to fight for justice for their daughter and got in contact with mainstream media. CBS paid for a second autopsy which discovered that LaVena’s neck was broken and disturbingly, that part of her vagina, tongue, and anus had been removed - something the military autopsy took no note of. 

Despite CBS and ABC both putting a lot of money and time into investigation the story, they suddenly dropped it. It was alleged that they were contacted by the military who threatened they would stop buying ad space. As it stands, LaVena’s death is still ruled as a suicide and her family are still fighting for justice.

#lavena johnson #unsolved murder #murder #true crime #injustice

[blm-sayhername]

#black lives matter #breonna taylor #no justice no peace #protest #kendrick johnson #lavena johnson #sayhisname #blm #kendrec mcdade #justice for tamir #trayvonmartin #know justice #know justice know peace

[kemetic-dreams]

I was actually stationed at this base!!!

Lookup the stats on convictions for rape in the military numbers are not nice towards women

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #lavena johnson #afrakan woman #army #pfc #balad #iraq war #iraq

[grimsae]

JUSTICE FOR VANESSA GULLIEN

JUSTICE FOR VANESSA GULLIEN

JUSTICE FOR VANESSA GULLIEN

Fuck Fort Hood & The United States Military for not taking action. Investigate this shit. Why did it take you so long to investigate this? Hiding years of sexual assault on your bases huh? Trying to cover up all of the reports of sexual assault going on with your men & women in uniform? There will be no peace until there is justice. While we’re here, reopen the LaVena Lynn Johnson case. Fucking done with innocent people being brutally & wrongfully killed. Fuck.

#non sims #vanessa gullien #justice for vanessa gullien #fort hood #say her name #lavena johnson #united states military #texas #no justice no peace #i am heated over this bullshit #fuck fort hood #investigate the military #remember this face

[misspeculiar-principe]

C/W: S*x*ual Assault, Murder

LaVena Johnson

And coming across a picture of her on Instagram.

#Youtube

[gallileofigaromagnifico]

Unbelieveable!! Poor girl... Rest in peace angel 💔 She died fighting for her country but her country didn't give a damn about her.

#lavena johnson #justice for lavena johnson #black lives matter #blm #no justice no peace

[madpotatodisease]

Woke Up Today Like...

Fuck the 4th of July if you’re still celebrating this shit when

LaVena Johnson,

and Vanessa Guillen,

were both raped and killed by their own comrades in arms and officers, and had it covered up.  

While the deeper you go into our history the more apparent our sins as a nation becomes, from our actions to the native Americans, to African enslavement, to the way Irish and Chinese workers where treated while building our roads/railroads, to then the indoctrination of our people, acting as though any of this is okay.

There is nothing about this country to celebrate.

This country was built from blood.

#writing #notes #4th of july #usa #history #united states #lavena johnson #vanessa guillen #american history

[gifsbysimplysonia]

WARNING:  the documentary contains graphic crime/death scene photos as well as graphic photos of the victim post mortem, and she was injured very severely around her head and face. 

https://thehueandcry.com/lavena-johnson/

https://crimejunkiepodcast.com/conspiracy-women-in-the-us-military/

All the thanks to Aly (https://twitter.com/SupergirlAlicia) for her informative thread. 

To date (as of the making of the documentary), 143 women died in Iraq. Of those, there are 25 non-combat deaths which bear further investigation, including 8 deaths the army has characterized as “suicides.” Like the Johnsons, many of these families have implored the army to re-open their daughters’ cases. The army has refused each and every request and stonewalled these grieving families at every turn.

#LaVena Johnson #BLM #women in the military #being a woman #video