Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior.
Shannon Kent, shown during her first combat deployment in 2007 to Iraq, illustrated an unspoken truth: that for many years women have been doing military jobs as dangerous, secretive and specialized as anything men do.
Given who she really was, military officials had little choice in how it described Shannon Kent. They said only that she was a “cryptologic technician,†which anyone might assume meant that her most breakneck work was behind a desk.
In reality, she spent much of her professional life wearing body armor and toting an M4 rifle, a Sig Sauer pistol strapped to her thigh, on operations with Navy SEALs and other elite forces — until a suicide bombing took her life last month in northeastern Syria.
Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/shannon-kent-military-spy.html
4 Americans were killed about 3-4 weeks ago over there in Syria.... she was one. Smith on name tag(?). Cryptology, study of codes.
