By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 20, 2023 Army Private LaVena Johnson volunteered to participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom in July 2005. Army Private LaVena Johnson was only 19-years-old at the time of her death on a U.S. military base in Balad, Iraq in July of 2005. She was not a military intelligence officer working undercover. She was not killed carrying out a covert military operation against dangerous terrorists in Iraq. Private Johnson’s death