Damn old age.
How I would love to be over there.
I know a guy who was on his way about a week ago. If I did not have family to take care of, I might have considered helping. But certainly not in combat roll at my age. I still shoot well, but the rest is a young mans task.
I do have a special attachment to the Syrian Kurds. It happened when the Siege of Kobani was going on. We pushed every news and political button we could to bring attention to the extreme desperation of situation. Finally on Oct. 11th 20145 Obama finally agreed and sent in the planes. Knocked out the ISIS armor and heavy weapons. Then dropped in supplies, water, ammo and some small arms. They held and drove ISIS back. Mostly women and a few men. Some Kurds came from Iraq and in the mountains and helped and they ended ISIS in Kobani.
They have my respect. Communicate very often. That has been almost 3 years since it began.