Trump names Joe Kent as NCTC chief and Sean Parnell as Pentagon spokesman

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President Donald Trump named Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and Sean Parnell as the lead spokesman for the Pentagon on Monday.

The president announced the appointments in separate posts on Truth Social. The two men are prominent veterans, Kent being a former Green Beret and Parnell leading one of the most decorated units of the Afghanistan War.

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