Peshmerga - Any honor

[RedRyder]

From what I've read, the Kurdish Peshmerga are probably our most reliable "allies" in that region. Perhaps the middle-east version of the Hmong. I'd like to hear from the guys who have dealt with them. What kind of people are they? Any better than the rest of them?

Thanks in advance.

 

[MarinePMI]

Generally, pretty straightforward, tribal folks. Not bad, but definitely not choir boys.

Good fighters. "Honor" is a relative term...and more complex than can be discussed in a forum. They are/were a tribal people; and everything that goes with that.
[MENTION=89168]Nishgriff[/MENTION] has more current dealings with them; mine are dated now (circa 90-91).

 

[RedRyder]

Yes, you're correct, "honor" is a relative term. It just seems that most of those folks over there switch sides in a heartbeat. And yeah, I recognize that if ISIS is threatening to kill your family, you'd probably flip pretty fast too.

 

[Maggot]

Yes, you're correct, "honor" is a relative term. It just seems that most of those folks over there switch sides in a heartbeat. And yeah, I recognize that if ISIS is threatening to kill your family, you'd probably flip pretty fast too.

Wouldnt the honorable, if difficult thing to do, be to shoot your family yourself, then kill as many ISIS and then yourself before they could take you. That said knowing what they will do to the family and you if you surrender.

Fuck ISIS.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

[MENTION=86082]Delta4-3[/MENTION] should be in here shortly.

 

[EddieNFL]

We have Kurdish friends in Nashville. Both had family members disappear during the Hussien reign. They were visiting family in northern Iraq when things went south, but were able to slip back across the Turkish border. They are in DC trying to garner support for the resistance. Their family and friends are on the run. If we provided the equipment, I think the Kurds would send ISIS back to their caves in short order.

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

We have Kurdish friends in Nashville. Both had family members disappear during the Hussien reign. They were visiting family in northern Iraq when things went south, but were able to slip back across the Turkish border. They are in DC trying to garner support for the resistance. Their family and friends are on the run. If we provided the equipment, I think the Kurds would send ISIS back to their caves in short order.

No no no, that would make way too much sense. We must airdrop supplies in and act like we dont know where those supplies will end up. We must take halfway actions that just barely help anything or anybody, while being very careful not to accidentally kill or get in the way of the courageous ISIS freedom fighters.

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[Dogtown]

During OIF III my team was augmented by a squad of Pesh and we ran missions from Dohuk across to Sinjar, Tal Afar, Feysh Khabur and dowm to Mosul and Erbil. They are good people who've been fucked over for generations but have their shit together and are making do with what they have. Our guys were fiercely loyal and the relationships we built with other Pesh and Asaish units were tested on a regular basis, especially when it seemed like all of our treasure was going to the Arabs who were smiling while trying to kill us. It was like pulling teeth to get MNF-I Ninevah to spend any money on the Kurds, and while you think they'd feel taken for granted, I never got that feeling from any of them.

We trained up a battalion of Pesh and brought them down to Mosul to help clear out that hornets nest in Nov 2004 and the regular Army dudes who were used to dealing with the Arab ING were floored every time our guys ran towards the gunfire and charged the objective. They earned massive respect from us and other US troops.

I feel so strongly about what's going on there now - watching what ISIS is doing in villages where we built strong information networks and where good people stuck their necks out for us. A part of me wishes I could drop everything and go help out, but having to fight cancer is keeping me here. So instead I've been organizing fundraising for NGOs working with my KRG contacts. IRC and Rise Foundation are at this moment helping to establish new IDP camps for the 1.5 million people who've fled north and inundated the KRG (the population north of the Green Line has swelled 30% in the last month) as well as provide, food, medicine, water, etc.

 

[Megahoser]

Wouldnt the honorable, if difficult thing to do, be to shoot your family yourself, then kill as many ISIS and then yourself before they could take you. That said knowing what they will do to the family and you if you surrender.

Fuck ISIS.

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[Victory]