"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. They had two children, born in 2015 and 2017. In January 2019, Shannon was killed in a suicide bombing in Manbij. After the bombing, Kent left government work, and began to write columns for CNN, Breitbart News, and Fox News speaking out against the war on terror."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent