Excerpt: ‘Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War’
Marty Skovlund Jr. and Joe Kent detail the journey of Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent, a special operations trailblazer killed in Syria.
By Marty Skovlund Jr. and Joe Kent
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The Spouse Angle Podcast — Up this week: Gold Star Husband Joe Kent on Life After Losing His Wife
A retired Green Beret reflects on the life of his late wife, who was killed on a special operations mission fighting ISIS in Syria.
By Military Times staff
Navy cryptologists urge service to name destroyer after Shannon Kent, the Navy cryptologist killed in Syria
"Naming a destroyer after her would be very fitting of her fighting spirit," Kent's husband Joe told Military Times.
By Diana Stancy
China issues warning to US after warships pass disputed islands
Your weekly look at recent developments involving the South China Sea.
British navy says 3rd warship sailing to Persian Gulf
London says the air-defence destroyer Defender, a Type 45 warship, will join the Type 23 Duke-class frigates Kent and Montrose.
The Operation Dragoon drama of Douglas Fairbanks
Famed for his heroics on screen, a Hollywood idol topped himself at war as leader of a band of seaborne deception specialists
By David Sears, World War II Magazine
US forces have much to learn from Ukraine’s fight with Russia, says State Department official
“Ukraine is a laboratory of techniques and procedures,” George Kent, deputy assistant secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the U.S. Department of State, told Military Times Tuesday afternoon
By Howard Altman
SEAL vet dishes on mysterious arrest in Haiti
The retired SEAL and his fellow contractors — carrying a dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols, along with satellite phones and other gear — had pulled away from a bank when they were stopped by police and detained.
Navy chief petty officer killed in Syria to be added to NSA memorial
The first female Navy service member killed in the battle against the Islamic State will become the third woman to have her name added to the National Security Agency’s National Cryptologic Memorial.
Sailor killed in bombing leaves behind a husband and two children
Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent, 35, of Pine Plains, New York, was based at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Pentagon identifies three Americans killed in Syria
They died Wednesday in Manbij, Syria, from a suicide improvised explosive device attack.
By Kyle Rempfer
Held hostage for 11 months, this Navy crew was freed two days before Christmas
The surviving members of the tortured crew continue to suffer the consequences of their captivity.
By Mitch Lerner, Military History Magazine