Scott Jones
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Really cool, cool place.
And then ISIS started cutting people's heads off.
That's it, 2014.
Yeah, man.
At the same time, our sister platoon was back home.
They didn't come with us.
They got sent to Ukraine because MH17 got shot down.
So we're over there like,
fuck, like, we could go to Ukraine as well.
And Scott Ryder was one of those fellas.
He was in the other platoon.
And he got to go, you know, and conduct that task where you're kind of just babysitting the AFP, doing their task to recover the remains of all the poor Australian people that perished in that incident.
And
We're in Papua New Guinea like, fuck.
But then we got told, but look, ISIS is cutting people's heads off and we might need to send someone over there.
Bugging.
I fly back to Sydney.
We had about three hours to go say goodbye to our loved ones and get on the plane to go to Iraq.
Was it?
Yeah, man.