Scott Jones
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Some ISIS videos.
What?
You're fucking out of control, mate.
But anyway, yeah, crazy.
So that's Iraq.
Well, that was the first trip.
Yeah.
So the partner force on that rotation, the Iraqi, our, our commandos back in, in, in Baghdad hadn't trained.
They were just starting to cycle guys through and train them in CQB.
Um, and they did obviously a phenomenal job.
Taji hadn't kicked off yet.
The irregular army, uh,
They call Taji their first, like Taji rotation one.
I think he's in like 2015, 16, right?
This is 2014.
So I hear people say, I was on the first Taji trip.
Well, your first Taji trip, I was on my second Iraq trip.
No big deal.
But so contextually, like the Iraqi army that we would then later train in the subsequent rotations and support in the fight of Mosul, they didn't exist yet.
So the partner force were the Iranian militias.