328: She Was Attacked By A Fellow Soldier & Never Made It Home: The Suspicious Death of Denisha Montgomery
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Denisha's Early Life 6:27
Joining the ARMY 8:24
Deploying to Germany 12:00
The Water Park Assault 14:13
The Smoking Gun that Was Ignored 18:56
The Nonsense Logic of Higher Ups 22:33
Denisha is Found... 25:15
Miles of Red Tape 28:44
A Series of Convenient Accidents 39:46
Her Family Fights for Justice 46:58
The Rampant Issue of SA in the Military 51:36
The Tailhook Event & The Invisible War 53:40
A Much Deeper Issue 1:00:30
The Guillen Case 1:12:29
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:16:15
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up, everybody? |
| 0:17.4 | And welcome back to Mile Higher podcast, episode28 and it's 2025 can you believe it |
| 0:26.3 | i cannot my brain is still in like 2017 2018 2020 are we get are people in the future going to |
| 0:33.4 | look back and call this like the 20s? I've always wondered that probably. |
| 0:39.0 | The 20s, the 30s? |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, I'd assume so. |
| 0:41.7 | I do too. |
| 0:43.4 | It's just kind of weird to think about that. |
| 0:44.8 | We're living through the 20s. |
| 0:46.2 | It's the roaring 20s. Yeah, the roaring 20s. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, well, shit's been pretty wild since 2020. |
| 0:51.2 | What a roller coaster it's been the last five years. But anyway, guys, we're happy |
| 0:56.4 | to be back. We hope you guys all had a great break. And we are starting off the year with a pretty |
| 1:02.1 | heavy episode, a very needed episode, a topic that must be talked about more. We're going to be |
| 1:08.0 | specifically talking about the suspicious death of private first class, Denisea Montgomery Smith, and also just the general cover-up of military |
| 1:18.0 | sexual assault and what a massive problem it is. Some of the progress that's being made, |
| 1:22.7 | a lot of the progress that still needs to be made, and just maybe some things that you didn't |
| 1:27.0 | know, because it's it's |
| 1:28.1 | pretty mind-blowing when you look into things yeah the statistics are shocking it is and it seems like |
| 1:36.2 | especially for women of color women just in general yeah but especially women color. It is a very dangerous place to work. |
| 1:45.7 | It's really an epidemic. |
| 1:47.5 | And, you know, prior in last year, we talked about just how the military covers up nefarious activities within the military, specifically around Pat Tillman. |
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