Shannon Kent: Joe Kent's Wife, a Commando Against ISIS

The resignation of Joe Kent, director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, is linked to the tragic loss of his wife.

Shannon Kent was killed in 2019 in an ISIS suicide attack in Manbij, northern Syria. In the same attack, three other Americans and about 15 Kurdish soldiers and civilians were killed.

Shannon Kent was a cryptologic technician in the U.S. Navy. She was born in 1983 in New York and enlisted in the Navy in 2003. She was multilingual, fluent in seven languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic.

She served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in 2014 she married Joe Kent and they had two children. In 2018, she was deployed to Syria, where she was killed.

After her death, Shannon Kent was promoted and decorated. Joe Kent wrote a book about her life, titled 'Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War'.

Joe Kent resigned expressing his disagreement with the war in Iran.