I also fought with the Kurds and I'm not an op, for what it's worth.
This was late 2015 into early 2016. Met one USAID dickhead and some Naval Intel folks. Some were former coalition soldiers from the US-Iraq War and occupation who'd dealt with the Kurds at that time and wanted to help. I'm not really sure when Brace was in Kurdistan, but most of the folks I interacted with were a mix of suicidal but wanting to die doing something that's probably good (helping socialists repel ISIS...) like myself, ethnic Kurds from abroad, some vaguely leftist folks still probably hoping to die there, but I'd say a lot of the Westerners I met were former soldiers who liked the Kurds and didn't want to see them get massacred quite as much.
Yeah, they got a super raw deal and as shitty as many former military people are, there is definitely some who can recognize our government fucked over the Kurds hard and probably felt a bit of guilt over it, among other reasons
I also fought with the Kurds and I'm not an op, for what it's worth.
This was late 2015 into early 2016. Met one USAID dickhead and some Naval Intel folks. Some were former coalition soldiers from the US-Iraq War and occupation who'd dealt with the Kurds at that time and wanted to help. I'm not really sure when Brace was in Kurdistan, but most of the folks I interacted with were a mix of suicidal but wanting to die doing something that's probably good (helping socialists repel ISIS...) like myself, ethnic Kurds from abroad, some vaguely leftist folks still probably hoping to die there, but I'd say a lot of the Westerners I met were former soldiers who liked the Kurds and didn't want to see them get massacred quite as much.
Yeah, they got a super raw deal and as shitty as many former military people are, there is definitely some who can recognize our government fucked over the Kurds hard and probably felt a bit of guilt over it, among other reasons
thank you for your service o7
:cia: but seriously :rat-salute: salutfor fighting ISIS