Scott Jones
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No, exactly right.
Yeah.
Iraq is relatively always going to be a dangerous place, but they've taken the country back.
So that's rotation one.
That's 2014, ends in 2015.
But I think-
The biggest issue from that deployment that I'm very proud of is that there was a lot of Australians over there fighting.
There was like 80, 90 Australians over there fighting.
And everyone that we struck via an airstrike- Australians.
Yeah, we're looking for- Citizens.
Yep.
So the Iraqi police and army would put them all in the back of a Hilux or a dump truck.
And I would just get a backup, a fucking truck full of bodies, corpses, enemy corpses.
And they would just dump it off at the front gate.
And it was my job because it was the job of the ODA EW guys to get the fingerprints and whatnot and the biometric data of those we'd killed so we could cross them off the list back home.
So ASIO are trying to monitor these dudes.
Um, the Americans are trying to monitor their dudes.
The British have foreign fighters over fighting for ISIS there.
They don't want them to come back, but can we kill them?
It's a contentious issue.