askchapo

Yeah I was in Iraq and Syria with kurds for almost 2 years beginning in late 2014 (just checked some records to confirm). It sucked, everyone was great for the most part and there's still a lot of people I worry about but they're also caught in the middle of disputes over oil and pipeline control and getting armed not too dissimilarly from ISIL/ISUS.

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I was literally suicidal and just couldn't do it myself so I figured I'd go get myself killed there. Now I'm ok. Just stay in the imperial core and be ready/try to mobilize there safely.

And I can't substantiate this at all but Israeli medical professionals were stopped on at least two occasions I was aware of leaving areas where ISIS guys got rounded up days later with recent medical aid having been rendered to them.

I primarily did forensics on dead ISIS guys' phones. Matched photos with geographic features/GIS data, sat in their group chats, etc. But I also got shot.

Most cool thing happened north of Musil, on the way back to the center of a town we were staying in. A puppy ran right up to us and I thought it looked a little too much like a wolf. Sure enough the mom was staring at us with her grey wolf puppy from 20m away and as soon as I saw her we retreated and took a longer route.