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
Marine vet sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for scamming money from Gold Star mom, Marine families
Marine veteran John Shannon Simpson was sentenced to four years and ordered to pay restitution of $141,709.44 to the victims of his charity scam.
By Shawn Snow
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
Meet America’s daring frigate captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a determined band of U.S. Navy warship commanders.
By Cmdr. Benjamin "B.J." Armstrong