Fox News is reporting on Hanna Böhman, a Canadian former model and motorcycle sales rep found a different calling, joining Kurdish women fighting ISIS in Syria.
She joined the YPJ – the female brigade of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units – after sneaking into Syria in and receiving rudimentary instruction on the care and feeding of the AK-47 before being thrust onto the front lines.
“I just felt like I had to do something greater with my life,” Böhman told Fox News. “I spent my life not doing what I wanted to do, but what I was expected to do. I wanted something different.”
“It was inspiring to fight alongside other women,” she said.
She served in two positions with the YPJ, first as overwatch guarding against suicide bombers, and then as her unit’s sniper.
“My first gun — an AK-47 — was 40 years old,” said Böhman, who recounted a near-death gun battle with two ISIS snipers in the northern Syrian border town of Til Abyad.
“I’m so much taller than most of the Kurdish girls and I was always getting shot at by snipers,” said Böhman, who is 5 feet 8 inches tall. “On this one day, the bullet was so close I actually felt it part my hair.”
“We’re being the change we want to see in the world,” she said. “It sounds cliché, but it’s true.”
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35 responses to “Canadian woman joining forces to fight ISIS”
She felt the wind trail of the bullet? That’s too close for comfort.
She’s making some of these posers look very small.
I hope she comes out of this in good shape.
“She felt the wind trail of the bullet?”
When a bullet breaks the sound barrier next to your ear you know what close is.
“A hiss means it’s close. A snap means–”
-SNAP-
“Okay, NOW they’re shooting at us!”
If the account is true, she has some courage.
Brass tits in lieu of balls.
Brass Boobs
Brass Cuyahogas
Brass Cazongas
Brass Hooters
Brass Ta-tas
I’d lovingly polish ’em all.
SPEW ALERT
“She’s making
someALL of these posers look very small.”With respect, fixed for ya, Ex.
Thanks!!
I’d like to see this woman have stories to pass down to her grandchildren.
Yeah, if it’s only 40 years old, it’s not an original AK (evidently the Russkies themselves never actually called it an “AK-47” until after the Iron Curtain came down and they heard everyone else calling it that). Probably an AKM, possibly an AK-74 (we can only hope she can tell 7.62 from 5.45).
Still, impressive.
Can women “clank” as they walk down the hall? If not, this one deserves to anyway.
See Big John’s take above.
DUMB ASS WITH A DEATH WISH!
what, a new poser/troll? Welcome, and enjoy. Oh, and you’re about to have your ass handed to you.
You can Seek Help for your condition. Shouting about yourself isn’t helping it.
I’m not sure what his problem is, but I’ll bet it’s hard to pronounce.
Always fun to see women killing those ISIS pussies who think they are so much better than everyone and especially women.
Anyone have her number by chance?
She’s out of my league! But then again, so is my wife!
Another bonus.
According to mad mo and the satanic koran, jihadists don’t get to paradise if they are killed by a woman.
Why, all of a sudden, do I have Wagner’s “Ride Of The Valkyries” in my head? 8 – )
There is a good show on Netflix called “Battling ISIS” that covers a couple of guys from England and the US that are with the Kurds.
Mostly its light infantry with a few Machine Guns in support. The show didn’t show how but one of the ISIS objectives was hit by US aircraft. Probably called in by an SF type that wasn’t about to be filmed or seen by a camera crew.
No real “snipers” to be seen. They had a firefight from about 200-300 yards distance while retaking a village that had been abandoned to ISIS.
The Daesh unassed and were gone by the time they closed in. Think the Kurds had one or two lightly wounded.
When they went up to where the airstrike took place ISIS had fled as well, but they left an assortment of body parts behind.
Society today gets its definitions from “Call of Duty,” where the “sniper” is the dude running around with the Barrett .50 whose longest shot is about 25 yards (because the map is only 40 yards across).
You just don’t “become” a unit sniper…
What I think she is saying she is a good shot.
Sniper is an overused term. Usually it’s just some asshole taking potshots. She damn sure isn’t doing any sniping with a 40 year old AK.
Eggsacty
There’s a picture of her in the story with a Dragunov:
http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/world/2017/06/21/hanna-b-hman-meet-canadian-woman-joining-forces-with-other-women-to-fight-isis/_jcr_content/article-text/article-par-6/embed_image/image.img.jpg/612/344/1498077514241.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
[Sorry – don’t know how to embed images in this system.]
ok…that’s my new wallpaper
Go the Fox link and check out her motorcycle PPE.
Is that a Dragunov, or that no-interchangeable-parts Iraqi knockoff?
I’d hit it.
shocked…I’m just shocked.
I knew you’d say that.
In other news, the sky is blue and the grass is green.
The list of what you would NOT hit is shorter than the list of Lars’s TAH fan club.
No photos from motorcycle modeling?