Jeremy Woodard; fighting ISIS
CBS reports that there is at least one more American fighting against ISIS with the Kurds by the name of Jeremy Woodard. Woodard claims that he was a veteran of the “US military” and a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraqi wars.
A month ago, after he was angered by news reports about atrocities committed by ISIS, he paid his own way to Turkey and was smuggled into the war zone.
“I can’t really understand them, but sign language is everything,” he said of working with his new comrades. Woodard told CBS News he’s been involved in several battles against ISIS, including one close to Syria’s border with Iraq that he said raged for 24 hours.
“I’ve killed two, in my first battle in Jezaa, and that’s it so far,” he told Williams. “Hopefully my numbers will go up. I never thought I’d be over in Syria killing people, but they’ve killed innocent people.”
I don’t know if he legit or not, since just announcing that he’s “US military” makes it more difficult to get a FOIA on his records. I know he’s not in AKO, but that only means that he wasn’t in the Army in 2012 when he claims he was discharged, of course, he could have been in the Army and let his AKO account expire.
But he says that he’s saving one bullet for himself so he won’t be starring in a YouTube beheading video if he’s captured by ISIS, so he has that going for him.
Category: Terror War
Whether he served here or not, he has my respect for fighting over there against ISIS.
rb325th…What you said.
If I had the shekels, I’d be there with him.
And for the same reason.
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The pics in the video show him with other soldiers and all are wearing the 2nd Infantry Division patch. I read more about him in his local paper and, if he’s not the real deal, he’s the best con man since Bernie Madoff. I say legit and I wish him well. I just hope he bought a round-trip ticket.
I agree with the legit vote. Right now it’s his world and I’m just living in it. Wish I were there also.
I heard Bob Smith and Bill Jones from the US military were there too. They were described as average build military-age males last seen driving a black Opal or a white Toyota somewhere in the eastern hemisphere.
Good for him. I’d rather read about good people going to fight against evil than evil people going to fight for evil. As for the whole taking a bullet before captured, I had the same plan rather than be captured by those animals.
I hope everything works out for him.
He is the cousin of a HS classmate of mine. Don’t know him, but judging from his facebook, he was former Army.
Me and a few buddies are looking at doing the same. Oddly enough though, one of the biggest obstacles we’ve come across seems to be logistics.
We’re still attempting to figure out how to get our gear to go with us. Foreign nations tend to frown and take a concerted look at your baggage with its filled with ballistic plates, magazines, chest rigs and ECH Helmets…
He is legit. He was in my unit in afghinstan. 655 tc