{"id":55590,"date":"2014-10-03T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55590"},"modified":"2014-10-03T11:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:47:16","slug":"american-fighting-with-the-kurds-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55590","title":{"rendered":"American fighting with the Kurds against ISIS (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jordan<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Andy11M sends us a link to the Reuters<\/a> article about Jordan Matson<\/a>, from Sturtevant, Wisconsin, who the Kurds say joined them in their fight against ISIS with the People’s Protection Units (YPG);<\/p>\n

“Yes it is true,” YPG spokesman Redur Xelil said in an online message. “He is fighting in the Jazaa area.”<\/p>\n

Jazaa is a town in Syria’s northeastern Hasaka province, close to the Iraqi border and has been the site of heavy fighting between the two groups.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

A friend of Matson’s said he told online gaming friends about two months ago that he was joining a “private army” to fight Islamic State.<\/p>\n

“He told us in the community that he was getting hired by a private army and he let us know two to three months in advance,” said Miguel Caron by telephone from Montreal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article says that Matson was in the military at some point, but there’s no record of him in AKO. He graduated from High School in 2005, so that makes him about 27 years old, I guess. If the Kurds want some volunteers, we have a thousand or so prospective recruits in our Stolen Valor page where they can start. Many of them are “Call of Duty” trained killers and I’m sure they’d jump at the opportunity.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Our buddy Jeff Schogol at Military Times<\/a> says that Matson spent a year in the service according to the Army’s Human Resources Command;<\/p>\n

Matson served as an infantryman from May 2006 until November 2007, attaining the rank of private first class, according to HRC. His record does not indicate why he left the Army after little more than a year, and command spokesman William Costello said he was unable to comment on Matson\u2019s \u201ccharacter of service.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his brief tenure in the Army, Matson trained at Fort Benning, Ga.; Fort Bragg, N.C.; and Fort Polk, La., according to his record. His military awards include the National Defense Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon and Parachutist Badge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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