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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nA number of folks have asked us to look into the claims of this David Shumock<\/a> fellow when he appeared in a Fox News <\/a>article about him and his time fighting with the peshmerga in Iraq;<\/p>\n One soldier manning the post was David Shumock, a 62-year-old Floridian and former U.S. Air Forces pararescueman. The American fights side-by-side with the Kurdish Peshmerga, and serves as medic and trainer to his comrades, as well.<\/p>\n Shumock has called the dusty, makeshift, camp surrounded on three sides by ISIS, for a year. When he and his fellow fighters arrived, ISIS had only just been ousted from Sinjar city. Their first effort was to rebuild the forward base by hand \u2013 fixing roofs, and ringing it with lookouts posts.<\/p>\n From this base, the men, part of the Kurdish quick reaction force, support a 500-mile long line, responding to attacks wherever and whenever they come. Often, it\u2019s their base under attack from artillery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Our partners filed a request for his military records and the National Personnel Records Center confirm that he was indeed an Air Force pararescueman;<\/p>\n Our friends at the PJs also confirm that he’s the real deal. They tell us that they’ve been trying to get equipment to him, since he’s entirely self-funded, but they’ve had trouble trying to get through the layers of red tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/David-Shumock-FOIA-257x333.jpg\")
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