Joe Kent was born on April 11, 1980, which means he’s 42 in 2022.
He grew up in Portland, Oregon, but was born in a cabin in Sweet Home, Oregon. Through the Boy Scouts and Explorer Scouts, he spent most of his formative years in the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia River Gorge. Joe had always considered the Pacific Northwest his home and wanted to protect his country.
Joe joined the US Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment as an infantry soldier at age 18. Likewise, at the age of 22, he descended as a special forces candidate at the JFK Special Warfare Center and School, and by the time Joe reached 23, he had already become a special forces weapons sergeant. (18B).
Additionally, in no time Joe was promoted to positions including Executive Officer/Detachment Commander of the US Army 5th Special Forces Group and Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant (18F). After that, Joe began serving as USASOC’s Executive Director/Commander in 2013. And in 2018, he was appointed as the Intelligence Community Operations Officer.
After that, Joe was hired to manage a tech startup project and was the sole owner of Perpetual LLC and a security consultant in 2019. He entered politics in 2021 and is currently a candidate for Congress (WA- 03).
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