An Evening with Marty Skovlund, Jr.
Join us for our next Meet the Author Night with Marty Skovlund, Jr., U.S. Army Veteran, and co-author of “Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War,” a newly released publication sharing the incredible life of Shannon Kent, a Navy senior chief petty officer who was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing in Syria. A Navy cryptologic technician, and one of the first women to serve as a special operator, Kent was fluent in seven languages and served multiple tours in Iraq, contributing to the capture of hundreds of enemy insurgents. Only a fraction of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the U.S. military are selected to be “operators,” and Shannon Kent was among the best.
This conversation will be moderated by Michael Jerome Plunkett, Executive Director of The Literature of War Foundation. Q&A and Book Signing to follow the discussion.
Marty is the former editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose and a U.S. Army Veteran with multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been covering the military and conflict for over 10 years, reporting on the ground from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine in addition to embedding with the U.S. military for training exercises around the world.
