At 17, Kent enlisted in the Army[5] on a Ranger contract,[3] allowing him to enter the 75th Ranger Regiment.[7] He applied for the Special Forces before the September 11 attacks,[5] and took a qualification course days before the attacks.[3] By September 2003, following his training,[3] Kent was deployed to Iraq, where he fought in the First Battle of Fallujah,[5] and searched for Iraqi officials.[3] He served eleven combat tours including deployments in Yemenand north Africa before retiring. Kent held the final rank of chief warrant officer. He later became a paramilitary officer with the Central Intelligence Agency.[8]
In December 2014, Kent married Shannon Smith, a cryptologist whom he had met at Fort Belvoir, where he had been assigned to an Army Special Operations Command.[9] They had two children, born in 2015 and 2017.[4] In January 2019, Shannon was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij. After the bombing, Kent left government work,[10] and began to write columns for CNN, Breitbart News, and Fox News speaking out against the war on terror.[3]He consulted with the White House and volunteered for Veterans for Trump and Concerned Veterans for America.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent
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