Scott Jones
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So I went down to my parents' place back home, had dinner with them and they just could tell by like, I'm like, hey, we need to have dinner right now.
And they're like, you just got back.
I'm like, yeah.
And they're like, oh, you're going again, aren't you?
I'm like, yeah, watch the news, man.
Who's the fucking, who's the government's ultimate problem solver?
Your son.
So I, yeah, headed on a plane over there.
And for the first couple of weeks, we were just in Amab waiting for like diplomatic visas from the Iraqi government to go in.
And during that period, I managed to, because of my skill set, my technical role that I play in the army, I got sent first into like over Mount Sinjar, over the border of Iraq and Syria, doing a role over there, air-based.
And I was literally one of the first Aussies into that conflict because I was in the air.
Well, the first Aussies were the Rafis.
And shout out to the Rafis, man.
C-130s were dropping like... I'm listening to ISIS surrounding the Kurds up on Mount Sinjar and Kobani.
And that's all over the news.
Like the Raf were doing airdrops onto there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And like you could hear, again, like the tonation of like...
These people were being slaughtered.
They were being put in trucks, driven to the fucking edge of the desert.