Catherine Dexter (Dex)
Appearances
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
So I'm thinking, if he's not her actual physical brother... I don't think she mentioned ever having an adopted brother. And then I'm thinking, maybe she just meant brother, like in the colloquial, we're all Marines, we're brothers type way. And I was like, maybe that's it.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
It's kind of like if you had a friend that told you that she'd had a miscarriage, the very last thing that you're going to do to that friend while she's crying about losing a baby is ask her if that actually happened. Like, that's so insensitive. So I was not going to ask this woman these questions because I didn't want to be insensitive because we were friends.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
I was like, this is what I would do for my friends. Like, especially a friend who's like struggling at this level. I was like, I understood really clearly like having a million things going on and all of them feeling very intense. So I was like, let me help you out because I have a minute and it's no skin off my back to send an email.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
You got to see the sunrise and you got to see mountains and the air was like. amazing and crisp and smelled a little bit like a campfire. So you woke up every single morning and you saw these mountains and they were beautiful and you were just like awestruck because you were like, why don't I live here? And that's where you were drinking your coffee at 5 a.m.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
So I had kind of steered away from the veteran community when I got out, and I was really, really isolated. So that was one of the big things that I struggled with because I had dealt with a lot of life transitions.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
I liked her. I liked her a lot. It's all in the context of, like, what I know about her now. But back then, I liked her because she put out, because she worked really hard and she was really humble. And she didn't walk around saying, oh, I'm a woman and I was in combat. She was injured and everybody knew it, but she was still running.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
When you're a woman in the military. The competition among other women is really intense a lot of the time. You're all trying to be the best, not just be the best woman, but you're trying to be the best so that the men think you're the best because that's what matters. And, you know, men are the ones who are always in charge of you. It's their opinion that gets you promoted.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
So if you're falling short, I mean, you're already doing one thing wrong because you're a woman. So it's like you can't do two things wrong.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
She also was taking injections of some kind, some type of medication for her hip. And she was like telling us like if she doesn't, you know, put this shot in her hip, like her leg goes numb.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
She told me that she had been in a convoy and her vehicle was hit by an IED. You know, the Humvee blew up. The door from the Humvee, like, crushed her hip. And somehow she was able to, like, get out of the Humvee.
Deep Cover
Episode 1: The Warrior
We're all sitting in the tent and she's about to leave and we're talking and she tells me that like she just got diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. And I like remembered this because she cried because I got up to give her a hug.