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Last year, the Navy essentially disqualified Kent from pursuing her doctoral studies because she previously had thyroid cancer. She had hoped to attend Officer Development School in June, followed by her postponed academic plans as part of her commissioning program in August. Kent was due to return to the United States by April. "They wanted to run down every last bit of ISIS." They most certainly were not going out to lunch," Joe Kent, a retired Green Beret warrant officer, said of his wife's last moments. She was based out of Fort Meade, Md., and part of the Navy's Cryptologic Warfare Activity 66, a unit within Cryptologic Warfare Group 6 that focuses on national, strategic and tactical level intelligence, military officials have said. Kent was part of a small, secretive cryptologic intelligence community. servicemember killed in Syria since the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against Islamic State began there in late 2014. 16 by a suicide bomber at a restaurant in the Syrian city of Manbij. servicemember, a Defense Intelligence Agency civilian and a Defense Department contractor, were killed Jan. Shannon Kent, along with 18 others, including another U.S. "The regulation still hasn't been fixed and that's something we're working on now," said Joe Kent, 38, her husband and father to their two children. Now, her family wants to finish the fight started by Kent to undo the regulation. She was killed less than two months later. Last year, the 35-year-old mother of two was slated to attend a clinical psychology doctoral program near Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.īut an obscure Navy rule and a previous bout of cancer derailed those plans and led to her fifth combat deployment instead. WASHINGTON - Navy Chief Petty Officer Shannon Mary Kent wasn't supposed to be in Syria.

Kent.īy CLAUDIA GRISALES | Stars and Stripes | Published: January 30, 2019

Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Family of fallen Navy linguist fights regulation that forced her deployment to Syria