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Navy cryptologic linguist11/27/2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kent was killed while doing intelligence legwork to aid larger efforts to track remnants of ISIS, her husband, a retired Green Beret warrant officer, told Stars and Stripes. But Kent’s death, less than two months into her fifth combat deployment, has highlighted the role of women like her supporting elite outfits on hushed front line missions against insurgents and terrorists. ![]() The wall is housed inside a secure area not generally open to the media or the public, but a replica is displayed at the National Cryptologic Museum, located near the NSA headquarters complex at the Maryland base.Īlong with the names and the NSA seal, engraved into polished stone are the words, “They served in silence,” reflecting their secretive duties. Kent’s name will be the first etched into the polished stone wall since May 2015. The names of 23 servicemembers have been added to the wall since the 2001 ceremony, when NSA began a tradition of declassifying and sharing their stories. Typically, NSA unveils newly added names in a wreath-laying ceremony at the 8-by-12 monument around Memorial Day weekend each year. Her death has brought attention to the work female servicemembers have been doing alongside elite front line units, and has prompted changes to a flawed Navy commissioning and waiver process that led to her deployment in lieu of attending a doctoral program. She will be the sixth sailor and the first Navy linguist named on the wall since the Cold War.Īn Arabic linguist with Fort Meade’s Cryptologic Warfare Activity 66, Kent was among the four Americans and more than a dozen others killed in a suicide bombing in the Syrian town of Manbij on Jan. 28 and is expected to include family members, an NSA spokesman said this week. A ceremony honoring her at the spy agency’s headquarters complex at Fort Meade, Md., is slated for Feb. ![]()
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