{"id":9649,"date":"2015-11-20T05:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2015-11-20T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:57:30","slug":"crusader-corner-6-u-s-vets-return-to-iraq-to-fight-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/20\/crusader-corner-6-u-s-vets-return-to-iraq-to-fight-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusader Corner #6: U.S. Vets Return to Iraq to fight ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9650\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/vet2.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"vet2\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>KIRKUK, Iraq &#8212;<\/strong> Some American veterans of Iraq can&#8217;t bear watching the country they fought to secure lost to the forces of ISIS. Incredibly, some are returning to Iraq as volunteer soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>For these former U.S. soldiers it&#8217;s a return to a deadly war zone, but this time they&#8217;re fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/after-paris-attack-foreigner-fighting-isis-says-everyone-has-a-stake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteers in the battle against ISIS<\/a>, also known as Daesh, who have dug in around the oil-rich region of Kirkuk.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio native Chris Kidd was a Marine sergeant in 2004, and fought in some of the fiercest battles of the Iraq war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To watch ISIS try and take over all of Iraq, it felt like it was destroying everything that we worked so hard to get. We didn&#8217;t fight and die for nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-veterans-return-to-iraq-to-fight-isis\/\"> CBS News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIRKUK, Iraq &#8212; Some American veterans of Iraq can&#8217;t bear watching the country they fought to secure lost to the forces of ISIS. Incredibly, some are returning to Iraq as volunteer soldiers. For these former U.S. soldiers it&#8217;s a return to a deadly war zone, but this time they&#8217;re fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1583,1704,2574,74,2417,2413,2933,2990,1860,2470,272,1911,1898],"tags":[3062,3063,3064,3065],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}