Kurdistan

>>30179321
I hate to say it but they probably died

>>30179321
I hope they died, the Kurds will be the cause of the next big conflict in the middle east

>>30179321
Probably sobered up and went back to eating hot pockets and watching hentai.

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>>30179321
How is he holding a cigarette in his mouth with a balaclava on?

>>30179321
the majority were posturing
one apparently had some kind of live leak thing going and then it stopped...
Another was told to leave for basically mag dumping their precious ammo...

>>30181429
hole?

>>30181448
another two had issues getting recruited.
One was too fat
The other fucked up the rendezvous and was deemed unintelligent

>>30181538
>>30181448

Did they go to the YPG or the Peshmerga? I know the Iraqi Kurds have some high standards for foreigners but it seems like the YPG wouldn't be in a position to turn away free soldiers, no matter how shitty.

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>>30181538
When they learned they were not allowed to bring their own weapons they said fuck it

saigamarine is out there

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>>30181596
no idea I know one ended up in the PKK.. and he despised communism and was not exactly excited that they wanted to tattack Turks America's NATO Ally

>>30181481
Do you see a hole?

Do you even see the fabric slightly distort from having a cigarette in it?

>>30181655
if the material is tight you wont

>>30179321
>ISAF patch
Wtf

>>30181634
Modern Kurds are more of some type of anarcho-capitalist society now than the communist they used to be.
> was not exactly excited that they wanted to tattack Turks America's NATO Ally
>Turks
>Ally
pick one and only one

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>>30181538
>One was too fat
>The other fucked up the rendezvous and was deemed unintelligent

Americans.

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figured out that the Kurds do not want their women marrying Americans and the ones they would interact with cant marry anyway

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There was a good thread on /b/ last year by a guy out there fighting. I think he was European. He timestamped and provided some great pictures. His general message was that it's actually fucking boring and Westerners aren't really trusted all that much to do anything useful because of all the gung-ho walter mittys that went over.

>>30181756
Common for ident purposes

>>30181948
POGs and 11Bs with 1 tour at KAF are not trusted, grunts with multiple tours under their belt on the other hand are on the front

>>30179321
>Steel case ammo
>It will break your gun

>>30181634
The turkish military killed ~6k of them since november. He is probably dead.

Aren't a lot ending up in Kurdish jails at the moment for travel visa reasons?

I'm one of them
I'm in the process of getting over, the YPG is having severe issues with getting volunteers in. I would turn this into an AMA, but I haven't really done jack shit aside from save up my money and talk with the nice men in Rojava.

>>30182885

How long are you intending to stay there for?

>>30182902
As long as it takes to win, anon. I've got nothing better going on, and to be honest, civilian life is getting boring.
>>30182340
The KRG has fucked up relations with their Syrian counterparts, due to Turkish fuckery as far as I'm told. The KRG is arresting people crossing into and out of Syria.

>>30182885
Any previous military experience, can you speak the language?

>>30182148
Wanna provide a source for that roach?

>>30182958
I've been learning Kurmanji for about 7 months, I'm not fluent but I can hold conversation and give/take orders. I've also been reading up on their culture and talking with a few Kurds so I don't come off as a prick
Army 11bambam, three years and some change. No combat deployments, sadly, and I don't want to reenlist on the off chance we get to go to Syria soon if I could be there in a few months fighting with the YPG.

>>30183033
>Army 11bambam, three years and some change.
Why did you leave early?

>>30183058
Fraudulent enlistment found during a security clearance check. I forgot about a fine I had as a juvenile, the investigators prodded and I genuinely couldn't remember anything about it occurring. Nothing ever came up on it for my MEPS check, my station check, any of it. The investigators believed me when I said I didn't remember anything, partially because I was waived through for a much more serious charge to enlist in the first place, and I had no reason to hide something so minor. I didn't get an RE-4, thankfully, but they said it was still an unqualified enlistment, and I got the boot.

>>30183033

How did you start the volunteering process?

>>30183179
thelionsofrojavacom, did my PGP encryption and contacted the email address.
The site has been down for awhile, I managed to get in contact before they basically told everyone to fuck off until things were fixed. As it stands, they have no solid date on when they'll manage to get people in, but they think it'll be in the next three or four months, and as soon as a date is known, they're bringing the site back up.

>>30182885
You're doing Gods work over there
Seriously, thank you for what you're doing

>>30183428
I appreciate it, but I haven't accomplished much of anything yet. I donate regularly to the Rojava plan though, so I guess that's karma points

My motivations are really surrounding my hatred of the Assad regime, the Islamic State, and the rest of the groups in the region that keep screwing everything up for everyone. Sure, for every one Westerner that's there to do good, there's ten that are there to play Rambo. I get it, war isn't something many experience, but it's deeper than that. I'm a trained Infantryman, I know I'm not completely useless. I can tolerate the shit. I know I'll be a propaganda tool for the Kurds, and that's okay, as long as I'm permitted to actually help out somewhere.

But really, I think of it this way. I wouldn't ever want to live in an area where my people were actually oppressed, or where the threat of Jihadi John coming over the sand and beheading my entire village being real. I love freedom, and I love people that love freedom. And the Kurds love freedom, but don't have much, so I'll fight for it, because at the end of the day, I genuinely care only for liberty, and not much else

>>30181956
Except they're not ISAF

>>30185978
>Except they're not ISAF

But he probably served in Afghanistan. So it's like a pride of previous service thing. Like wearing a badge of a former unit.

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>>30183516

I hope they start to get people in again. Is it easier to just go to Iraq rather than Syria?

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>>30179321
How long ago are we talking?

>>30187375

About four months ago, off the top of my head.

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>>30187381
Oh, wouldn't be my "group" then, was over a year ago that that happened.

>>30187343
>skull mask
> $50 scope on an AK
>prior service
Sure, as a POG

>>30181604
The no own weapons thing doesn't seem right unless they were wanting to take their Nuggets? Peshmerganor seems to be using his own firearms. https://www.instagram.com/peshmerganor/ he now has a couple of videos up on Liveleak as well.

>>30187392

How long did you go over for?

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>>30187421
Four months only, unfortunately.

>>30187433

4 - 12 months seems like a good enough time without it being detrimental to life back home. How much did you save to go? Or rather how much did you spend per month?

>>30187476
I had 2k for the ticket and around 800 bucks pocket change.

>>30188651
Any legal issues doing this?

>>30189468
None in Canadian law.

>>30189493
PKK or YPG?

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>>30189570
YPG

>>30181775
I would really like to know where you got that one from.

>>30189601
Alright, via Lions of Rojava? They've been closed the last month IIRC and I haven't found any other legit groups doing volunteering work.

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An hero'ing soon, where do I sign up for Kurdistan?

No military experience.

Lots of fun experience. Know the AK platform inside and out (saiga-converterfag here).

Handy with tools and in good physical shape. Facing legal trouble at home and basically want a break from it all. Will I have to renounce US citizenship?

Any leads?

>>30181655
Some of the material is probably in his mouth, and he is just smoking through the fabric

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>>30189641
Yeah I'm not sure why it closed. Probably border issues desu

>>30189720
It's a shame, hopefully they open up soon again.

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>>30181328

http://aranews.net/2016/05/rojava-officials-negotiate-iraqi-kurds-reopening-semalka-border-crossing/

Possibly soon.

>>30189680
What's your time frame for legal trouble? Earliest my group will be able to leave is August assuming border opens up.

>>30189638
It was in the Middle Eastern General, a kind anon provided my a source. All in all, the only reason why have Turks in NATO is their strategic area against the Russians. Either way, Erdogan is making shit complicared for us. by not allowing us to deploy from Turkey, and staring shit with Russia, as well as bomb the Kurds near the Syrian-Turkish border. They're more of a hinderance than an ally at this point.
>http://www.tangledwilderness.org/a-mountain-river-has-many-bends/
Keep in mind, this is made by a liberal faggot, so there will be some author bias here, but it provides an overall general idea of the modern day Kurdish political ideology

>>30189493
How would a Marine grunt with 4 years in and two (noncombat) deployments to the middle east and the med fare?

0351 btw, that is demolitions, urban breeching and rocket gunning.

>>30190182
Yeah, I'm not sure if you had a look at that, but it says anti-capitalist pretty early on. The YPG and their associated paramilitary groups under the banner of the KCK follow the ideology of democratic confederalism which is this anarcho-eco-socialist type thing based on the writings of Murry Bookchin. This is only the YPG/YPJ Sinjar Resistance Units, and PKK. The KRG peshmerga are largely divided between the PUK and KDP, the former being more left wing than the latter both being primarily driven by Kurdish nationalism.

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>>30190011

currently on 3-year probation and doing 30 day jail stint for a non-violent offense (DUI)

I guess since I'm on probation I shouldn't be leaving the country... :^)

>>30190304
Eh, at least I got some of it correct with the anarcho part, I was posting what I remembered out the top of my head

>>30181788
Getting raped by Muslims eropoor

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>>30190290
You'd probably do just fine, but there's not any action with TOWs (if that's what you mean by rockets). But as a former combat eng I did get a good chance to do some EOD and mine laying.

>>30190304
The PUK is also driven by Kurdish nationalism, but does have the more left-wing slant, as well as being more pan-Middle East Kurdish as opposed to the KDP's Iraqi Kurd focus.

>>30187395
They'r fighting a good fight and they aren't rich. who gives a shit? They're fighting for a good cause.

>>30181697
I own one of those, they're not tight.

They're baggy as shit

>>30179321

One of the group that was the most committed.

It came down to like 6 of us, with one guy apparently having a contact in Erbil who could get everything moved forward. I had a seat reserved on a flight and everything, was waiting for a final word to move all my stuff into storage and term my lease.

It got up to like two months before the agreed date and the guy who was "organizing" all of it just dropped off the face of the earth. We had an encrypted email group going and he just disappeared. The remaining people tried to stay organized and two of them might have even actually gone but they lived in the same city and would have gone together. Without a contact I wasn't going to solo it.

So, unfortunately, I never followed through. One of my great regrets and it kind of seems like I missed my window, the current situation seems... not good.

>>30193110
4U

>>30181177
the kurds have been winning recently with the help of US special operations and westerners dying has always been highly publicized by the embedded reporters. they either didn't go or they are there and are sitting on some kill outside a city. There are posters on /k/ that are kurds living in Erbil that come around regularly in these threads.

>>30189493
are you the canadian ginger army brony that went?

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>>30193285
I've been found out!

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Do they even pay?

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>>30193292
i'm a fan, we have talked a few times before. I'm curious, how do westerners get supplementary gear into the country? I've seen people with like vortex optics and hunting nightvision that they brought with them and you said you were given a body armor plate by someone. how does bringing or shipping gear into iraq/syria work?

if i were to ever lose my current way of life i would seriously consider going and helping the kurds slay bodies but it would make me feel better knowing i didn't have to rely on shitty equipment.

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>>30193450
>how do westerners get supplementary gear into the country
AFAIK much is bought from markets in Iraq and brought over on the hump to Syria. Can't speak personally since I didn't actually go to them. The body armour was from a comrade over there. The Kurds provide camo, rig, rifle, and ammo, supplements like armour and the plate carrier were bought by us. Guy on lower right was the one with the plates

>>30193741
>https://www.instagram.com/peshmerganor/

Have you ever interacted with any Christian or Arab SDF groups? is their equipment situation just as dire?

>>30193844
I personally didn't, and honestly I'd hardly call the situation dire. No armour or fancy rigs doesn't make it bad, and there's a fair variety of weapons.

>>30193932
What canton are you in? Also sad to hear about Abu Leyla.

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>>30194424
I was near Sere Kaniye, about 20km south.

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Another ISOF MaxxPro + MICLIC near/in Fallujah

>>30193192
was that the Flagless Fighter group?

>>30189680
They wont want you

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>>30193192
Ayy which one were you. We had two of us in Erbil but only one who actually went over.

>>30187353

That pic is hot as fuck.

>>30197924

I was with you in Erbil. Remember the pigeon coop on the roof of our hotel?

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>>30198214
Yeah I do man, remember the mosque literally across the street? Or wait, that Second Cup in the mall!
>first time having a coffee from this Canadian shop
>in Iraq

How's the woman? She forgive you for going to Iraq?

>>30190309
>baby's first dui
>wants to flee the country
Just fucking deal with it, pussy
Pay the fine, pay a lawyer, get the blowjob thing installed in your car or use public transportation, get a second job and learn to love overtime.
Quit being a little bitch and get over it.