Lawmaker Wants Navy Ship Named for (female) Senior Chief Killed in Syria

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Lawmaker Wants Navy Ship Named for Senior Chief Killed in Syria


Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent. (U.S. NAVY)

13 Jun 2019
Military.com | By Patricia Kime

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wants a U.S. Navy ship to be named for Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon Kent, the Pine Plains, New York, native who spent much of her 15-year military career embedded with special operations troops and died Jan. 16 in a bombing in Manbij, Syria.

The honor would be the first for the Navy: Of the service's nearly 300 ships, fewer than a dozen are named for women and none commemorate a female service member killed in action.

A talented linguist, intelligence analyst and cryptologist, Kent enlisted in the Navy in 2003, inspired, according to Schumer, by her father and uncle, who both served as first responders in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

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