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\nNavy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent. U.S. NAVY<\/p>\n
\nNavy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent. U.S. NAVY<\/p>\n
Apologize for the late posting- I do try to post up these guest links as quickly as I can. Then this thing called ‘life’ comes up and my attention is directed elsewhere for more mundane tasks that put food on the table and a roof overhead. <\/p>\n
Better late than never. AnotherPat us sent this link about the ramifications of that cowardly attack in the supposedly safe Syrian city of Manbij, that took the lives of nine civilians and five US service members. Chief Cryptologic Technician (I) Shannon Mary Kent was among the deceased.<\/p>\n
Now her family is questioning the regulation that sent her to the Middle East in the first place. The article:<\/p>\n
By CLAUDIA GRISALES
\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Navy Chief Petty Officer Shannon Mary Kent wasn\u2019t supposed to be in Syria.<\/p>\nLast 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.<\/p>\n
But an obscure Navy rule and a previous bout of cancer derailed those plans and led to her fifth combat deployment instead. She was killed less than two months later.<\/p>\n
Now, her family wants to finish the fight started by Kent to undo the regulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe regulation still hasn\u2019t been fixed and that\u2019s something we\u2019re working on now,\u201d said Joe Kent, 38, her husband and father to their two children. \u201cWe\u2019d like to change it in her honor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shannon Kent, along with 18 others, including another U.S. servicemember, a Defense Intelligence Agency civilian and a Defense Department contractor, were killed Jan. 16 by a suicide bomber at a restaurant in the Syrian city of Manbij. She was the first female U.S. servicemember killed in Syria since the U.S.-led coalition\u2019s campaign against Islamic State began there in late 2014.<\/p>\n
Kent was part of a small, secretive cryptologic intelligence community. She was based out of Fort Meade, Md., and part of the Navy\u2019s Cryptologic Warfare Activity 66, a unit within Cryptologic Warfare Group 6 that focuses on national, strategic and tactical level intelligence, military officials have said.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was doing intelligence legwork. They most certainly were not going out to lunch,\u201d Joe Kent, a retired Green Beret warrant officer, said of his wife\u2019s last moments. \u201cThey wanted to run down every last bit of ISIS.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kent was due to return to the United States by April. She had hoped to attend Officer Development School in June, followed by her postponed academic plans as part of her commissioning program in August.<\/p>\n
Last year, the Navy essentially disqualified Kent from pursuing her doctoral studies because she previously had thyroid cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The rest of the article may be found here: Stars and Stripes<\/a><\/p>\n
I know, ‘Needs of the Navy’ come first. But perhaps those needs aren’t really being met by archaic regulations that are in serious need of updating.<\/p>\n
Fair wind as following seas, Chief Kent.<\/p>\n
Thanks, AP. Told you I’d get to it; didn’t even need that elbow jab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"