The Shannon Kent Story and Carrie Filipetti

Hosted by Jim Fausone

Join us on Mother’s Day, 2024, to hear the incredible story of Navy Senior Chief Shannon Kent, mother of two and Navy intelligence warrant officer and language specialist. Senior Chief Kent was KIA in Syria in January 2019. Her story is told in “Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War” co-authored by her husband Joe Kent and Marty Skovlund Jr. (editor-in-chief, Task & Purpose). Host Jim Fausone speaks with the authors.

To learn more, see this recent article from Task & Purpose

To find a bookseller, visit the publisher page

 

Jim also speaks with Carrie Filipettie, executive director The Vandenberg Coalition: can civics education help solve the recruiting crisis? 

Learn more about Carrie here

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