>Armed men in uniform identified by Syrian Democratic forces as U.S. special operations ride in the back of a truck in the village of Fatisah in the Syrian province of Raqqa on May 25, 2016. Delil Souleiman, AFP
IN PHOTOS: U.S. Special Forces operating against ISIS in Syria's Raqqa
>American troops seen alongside Kurdish militants, other local forces in offensive outside ISIS' de-facto capital of Raqqa.
>Photos emerged Thursday showing U.S. Special Forces operating in Syria's Raqqa province alongside Kurdish YPG militants and fighters under the command of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), deemed to be moderate and an ally in the offensive against Islamic State militants in Syria.
>The photos, captured by an AFP photographer, show some of the American soldiers wearing patches of the YPG and YPJ, the YPG's all-women combat unit, either in a show of support or in an effort to hide their affiliation on the battlefield.
>>30077281
>>30077290
What the hell are they wearing? AOR?
>But comrade Putin and glorious RT told me that America is helping ISIS.
>>30077281
>The photos, captured by an AFP photographer, show some of the American soldiers wearing patches of the YPG and YPJ, the YPG's all-women combat unit, either in a show of support or in an effort to hide their affiliation on the battlefield.
Yup, some white ass navy seals are definitely wearing YPJ patches to hide their affiliation, never mind that they're wearing their issued uniforms in their branch's chosen camouflage pattern.
>>30077281
>No flags or markings
Why?
>>30077397
Yes.
>don't join the military, get ready for peacetime garrison bullshit forever from now on
>even vanilla team guys are getting deployed to operate in syria
what happened guys?
Which one is the Syrian
>>30077417
That's standard for spec ops and black ops.
>>30077457
The "white" guy
>>30077417
We're doing a Crimea like in Syria :^)
>>30077442
>>even vanilla team guys are getting deployed to operate in syria
Such as? Isn't anyone that's doing anything in Syria SF?
They've been there since ever m8. Special Forces are there anytime we want a proxy war.
>>30077511
These seels are definitely from a vanilla seal team. So no, not just US SF. Just pointing out the ridiculousness of guys saying "don't go SOF m8, you'll be stuck sweeping floors and washing rocks in the rain b/c garrison."
>>30077575
People only say that about regular infantry.
It looks like ISIS has infiltrated Europe and will try to do large scale attacks in the future.
Possibility of a large scale deployment in the middle east against ISIS? Not just SF/air strikes
>want to join military after undergrad
>kiwi
>tfw too young and missed Afghanistan
Feels bad man
here's some more SEAL's in Iraq/Syria
>>30077800
sorry about the airshit watermarks, haven't found versions without 'em
>>30077808
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUdUQXTQYWg
Canadian SOF in Iraq
>>30077427
that guy in the front looks kebab as fuck
>>30077575
>Just pointing out the ridiculousness of guys saying "don't go SOF m8, you'll be stuck sweeping floors and washing rocks in the rain b/c garrison."
Absolutely nobody says that, you're confused.
So who do you think is operating out there?
Rangers? SF? SEALs? AFSOC? All of the above?
>>30078016
Everyone
>>30077700
Join up m8, good chance there are NZSAS attached to the shitposters over there right now.
Western SF are going to be busy removing kebab non stop for decades to come.
Heard my boy Hemingway might quit the whole fitness model youtuber gig and get into mercenary work in syria
>>30077397
>The US government is an organised and unified entity without any one of the numerous branches or people within having differing motives and/or agendas
>>30077575
Those guys aren't SEALs.
>>30077397
We are.
We were never involved with the Kurds or any other branches of the SDF. Those are not Green Berets, they are obviously foreign fighters from Europe.
>>30077479
Can't wait till turkroaches bomb a ypg group with seals in it. Maybe then we'll do something about them.
>>30078924
I agree with you on the second part; I really want us to finally kick Turkey out of NATO and treat them like the shitty authoritarian ragheads they are. Install a new democratic government that'll play ball with the west and suddenly we have the strongest possible base to project power into the middle east.
>>30078936
>I want to do what is in Russia's best interest
Useful idiot.
>>30077309
>Stupid rolled up flag on armor
Confirmed for SEAL.
>>30079225
GBs have been doing that for a long time as well. ODAs taught Tiger Teams in Afghanistan the same thing.
>>30079269
Not that anon, but is it an ID thing then they're on vehicles so air support doesn't mistake them for bad guys?
>>30079483
It's literally so that their bodies can be covered if they're KIA.
IR flags, tabs, and strobes are so they don't get friendly fired by CAS.
>>30079511
Less shitty picture.
>>30079511
>It's literally so that their bodies can be covered if they're KIA.
Well thats pretty morbid, but war, so that makes sense.
>IR flags, tabs, and strobes are so they don't get friendly fired by CAS.
Thanks for the info, anon.
>>30079511
>KIA
but why. that can only say that Americans were somewhere they (politically) shouldn't be.
>>30079537
Their decked out in very specific American uniforms and even wearing US flag patches.
>>30077479
>>30077808
The US is publically operating in Syria right now and not trying to hide it.
Just like the KIA pictures I posted above, which are from Afghanistan, they have no reason to hide their nationality.
>>30079042
>wanting to keep a bunch of retard camel jockeys in NATO to police other goat fuckers
Good goy!
>>30078924
>Can't wait till turkroaches bomb a ypg group with seals in it. Maybe then we'll do something about them.
lmao
Turkey won't be too happy about it, then again I guessed that we probably had some sort of eyes on the ground considering the amount of airstrikes that come down in support of the YPG.
>>30077700
As a commonwealth citizen, you also have the option of joining the British armed forces. Better chance of getting deployed.
>>30079700
Kek. If I ever start to think that our actions in the Middle East haven't always been full retard this brings me back.
>>30078936
Like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan?
>>30079561
>The US is publically operating in Syria right now and not trying to hide it.
Everyone takes this "special operations don't count" attitude.
>>30078936
>wanting to lose that sweet strategic real estate
We don't just keep the turks around for their delightful candies, anon
>>30079890
Bongs no longer accept commonwealth citizens into their armed forces, you will have need to have actually lived in the UK to qualify
Looks like the Poms and Frogs are doing the same you in Libya.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/26/british-special-forces-destroyed-islamic-state-trucks-in-libya-s/
>>30078016
Green Berets. Being embedded and training the locals is their bread and butter.
>>30078016
Probably an ODA with a spook from the CIA and JTAC tossed in.
>>30079511
>IR flags, tabs, and strobes are so they don't get friendly fired by CAS.
muh orange rockets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I6-2NJhnf4
>>30080287
That makes sense.
>>30077427
>oakleys and beard
the operator i always imagined
>>30078936
>Install a new democratic government
Nice contradiction. Or were you talking about American democracy™?
>>30079890
Wrong
More dead americans
die americans
die die die
>>30080244
more dead britshits and frogs
die britshits and frogs
die die die
>>30080472
ISIS, please.
>>30079661
Turkey is not about policeing other camel jockeys you inbred full retard motherfucker. They are a strategic intrest.
Jesus fucking christ, look at a fucking map.
>>30080313
I remember seeing a documentary about submarines in WW2. Especially towards the end of the war, one of their focusses was rescuing downed pilots.
The other US pilots would often fire at the submarines whilst they were trying to rescue their buddies. Only after the leadership threatened to seize rescuing downed pilots, the airmen lost their indifference towards whom they were targetting.
>>30077281
>hide their affiliation by wearing YPG/YPJ patches
Holy shit, who did come up with this?
YPG are wearing nothing but cheap chinese chest rigs and AKs, no helmets, no further gear, no plates.
How the fuck would it be possible for those SF to hide the fact they're burger niggers
Does anyone know exactly who those guys are? Delta Force? SEALs? Rangers?
YPG volunteer here, 6 months last year, Al-Hassakah offensive from beginning in April to end in June, battle of Abdul-Azziz, Battle of Sülük, Battle of Tal Abyad, weeks of defending the new established border at Ayn Issa against Da'ish attacks after June, 80km from Raqqa.
I wish i was there now, would love to see those guys in action.
Btw, on some of the pictures you see them with kurds in darkish camo and desert chest rigs, i met those guys a few times and 2 teams of those have been in my unit when we liberated the Abdul Azziz mountains. They are Yekineyen Anti-Terror, YAT. YPG "special forces". Most of them are of Syrian-Kurdish origin, unlike many other YPG fighters who are Kurds from Turkey. They speak Arabic, i think that's the reason the Americans are fighting with them. Might be harder for the US to find Kurdish translators, i guess that's why there's a Kebab looking guy with them.
>>30078542
go to bed ivan
>>30077479
>AVS
That guy SF?
>>30080938
>pictures of SF in a "SF with Kurds in Syria" thread
>"That guy SF?"
>>30078936
>>30079661
Nigga you fucking stupid
>>30077575
That is said about French Foreign Legion.
>>30078205
Why don't they have their god damn kneepads in???
>>30080786
>YPG volunteer here
Got any pics? Also are they still taking volunteers?
>>30081422
If you want to fight isis it would probably be better to join the peshmerga in iraq. Technically they stopped taking in foreigners but I remember another anon saying you could still do it
>>30077322
>dat 40mm tosser
>>30081448
I was under the impression that to join the Peshmerga you needed prior mil experience, something I don't have.
>>30081422
>pics
A few. Had a few threads on /k/, dumping like 150 pics and telling a few stories.
Back then, i just messaged them on facebook, and 2 weeks later i sat in a plane to sulaymaniya, iraqi-kurdistan. not sure how it works today, but i think they still take volunteers. problem is, iraqi gov raised the fee for expired visa, and it's much harder now to cross the tigris to get into syria. it always had to be done in secret, but now the pesh really have an eye on the border. back then, we just wanderer hours through fields in pitch black, cut a hole in the fence, passed through the searchlight cones, and crossed that huge ass river paddling in a rubber boat. pretty adventurous and fun, but if they catch you you spent a few weeks in prison and get deported.
>>30081496
Don't join m8 there's been volunteer deaths of people with no experience that couldve been avoided. Even some vets that died cause they didn't have good enough kurdish
>>30080938
Really doubt they've got SEALs + Army SF riding in the same vehicles.
>>30081271
Except the news uses SF as a generic term to refer to SEALs, Army SF, PJs, etc.
>>30081569
Bullshit, stop making shit up.
I knew most of the 7 that have fallen yet, and how they died. Inevitable. Also the Kurds really care for their volunteers, they loved us. Language has never been an issue.
There's an Australian who has been buried under a building, the Kurds brought 2 units to reenforce and drive Da'ish away, just so they could make sure they get him out of there. And they did.
>>30081569
I'm well aware, but I'd still go. Been trying to learn some Kurdish for a while.
>>30081567
You that one German guy that went?
>>30081590
yup
>>30081587
I'm just repeating what the American guy said in the other thread
>>30081633
yes, a lot of people say that. but it's just not true.
people without military background get trained by the kurds, it's not comparable to NATO basic training ofc, but it's enough. If you use your head, you can avoid most mistakes. There's hundreds of volunteers, but only 7 have fallen yet.
Also they teach volunteers kurmanji, especially the military stuff. It's enough to clear simple situations. It's not like you have to study to know that you take cover when someone's firing at you, to watch out for IEDs, not touch stuff you didn't pick up in enemy territory, to always keep an eye on your surroundings, and to do what your kurdish comrades do.
All the other stuff, like how to practically and tactically use a RPG, how to move, what you can use as cover and what not, they teach you in their academies.
>>30081422
I doubt foreign soldiers are the solution to the problems in the middle east. You just end up radicalised by the locals or disowned by your own country.
>>30081681
Dead shitskins are the answer
>>30081688
I think a dictators are the answer. A mass ideological change (eg, everyone suddenly becomes a Buddhist) would be the ideal, but failing that, a hardline dictator is historically proven at keeping middle eastern countries peaceful.
>>30081724
I think a white dictator with tens of millions of ethnic european colonists with large families is an improved version of the plan.
>>30081724
See Myanmar or Sri Lanka, Buddhists can be pretty extreme m8
>>30081596
Did you ever recover financially? I recall that you were rather broke after it.
>>30081724
Buddhists can be pretty angry fuckers when roused. Also dictators pretty much are the answer, but to most in the west the idea is anathema. IMO if we had let the dictators run their course in the ME there would've been a gradual and better transition to democracy over time. Take Libya for example. Despite how much the /pol/fags suck his dick Qaddafi was a bit of an erratic shitbag. However, his son (also the guy most likely to replace him) openly advocated reform and stuff that would've benefited Libya immensely. Realistically Qaddafi would've croaked in a few years, Saif would've come to power, and Libya would have slowly become that freedom-loving democracy that the idealistic pricks who backed the intervention would've wanted it to be. But that didn't happen. Obviously this is a rather simplified look at a more complicated situation but that's generally how things could've panned out for a lot of the countries in the ME.
>>30077281
>no BORN TO KILL on helmet
son, i am disappoint
>>30077479
>YPJ
That's a patch for the women's units, kek.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_Protection_Units
>>30081922
>Did you ever recover financially? I recall that you were rather broke after it.
Yes, i'm studying now and also got a job. Back then, about 15 fellow /k/ommandos donated a little more than 700$ via paypal, that really helped me out after coming back to Europe without any luggage and broke.
>>30080313
>>30077417
the dude on the 40 has an american flag
>>30077322
>>30081963
which was fucking mentioned in the opening post.
Can you please read at least the fucking first post of the thread?
>>30081963
>cute brown chicks with guns, capping isis towelheads day after day
>somehow laughable to wear their patch
dude those girls are more badass than you could ever be, down in your mom's cellar. and i don't have to tell you about how badass the guy wearing that patch is. just stfu.
>>30082083
do you guys think the SF guys are balls deep in dirty, hairy, sweaty, kurdish puss?
man that would be cash
>>30077850
>wheredoyouthinkweare.jpg
>>30080457
>>30080472
Turks should be exterminated.
>>30082360
probably not, they seem quite professional. but i think it wouldn't be a problem for them under the right circumstances. i heard ypg and pkk forbid love or sexuality between fighters, in the 90s the pkk shot their soldiers for having relationships within their organization.
back then those guys were hardcore, 2003 they changed everything from ideology to modus operandi. but if i recall right, relationships still are a no-no.
>>30080029
>>30080384
This is terribly disappointing.
>>30077457
Just like in Hogan's Heroes when they have the black soldier dress up like a German to fool the Germans.
>>30078924
Turkey only helps NATO's interests why kick them out?
>>30083412
When were they helping, when they said they were going to bomb ISIS but bombed the Kurds instead? When they shot down a Russian plane? Or when they're constantly starting shit with the Greeks?
>>30083443
by providing strategic basing
>>30077281
wew
They dun goofed
Why don't more operators oper8 with more based sunglasses?
>>30083443
They most likely shot down Russian plane on NATO orders because it didn't even cause any stir in NATO at all and everyone supported them.
They did start stuff with Greeks in the past but when was the last incident? I'm pretty sure it was past 2000 or something.
You are right about Kurds stuff but it's kinda minor, considering the mess Syria is in.
What they're doing is basically playing the puppy dog around NATO for a little bit acknowledgement. They were really into establishing no fly zone on Syria.
>>30083412
>only helps
Is that why they are occupying half of a NATO member?
>>30078936
>install democracy
Hmm where did I hear this before?
>>30083485
Was Cyprus even had an intention to join NATO when it was occupied? I mean your feelings may have been hurt because they're doing the occupation thing, but it is no big deal compared to help they provided in Korean War and Gulf Wars. Keep in mind that NATO is a military alliance.
>>30083520
Apparently I can't into English.
>>30083520
As I recall, but am too lazy to google, Cyprus was exploring the possibility of becoming part of Greece, which gave the Turks nightmares about SAM batteries that could "see" almost of of Turkey.
>>30083602
As I recall there was a coup in Cyprus, which I wouldn't call exploring possibility to join Greece. Turkish invasion to be honest a bit justified, but over extension is problematic, because if I remember correctly most of Turkish Cypriots say yes to unification.
>>30083656
That's correct. The whole point of the coup was to join Greece, which was also being run by a military junta at the time.
>>30077808
Airshit? Semapo makes gear.
>>30079042
>Wanting to keep Turkey in NATO
Fuck off, last thing I need are turkroaches assualting my people in Armenia
>>30084123
Their gear is mainly marketed towards airsofters. I hear it's as good as actual crye precision gear tho
>>30080472
shoo shoo jihadi
>>30084349
that is a fucking joke, right?
>>30077873
I think he might be Sikh
>>30084383
There are quite a few gearmakers that basically make copies of more expensive stuff like LBT/Crye. For example, AWS is a company near Fort Bragg that makes a LBT 6094 clone that sells for $150. Unlike condorshit, they actually hold up pretty well
>>30084416
call the doctor
>>30077281
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36396248
Turks are pissed off
>>30084511
>trusting some koreans who make airshit vests to makes your combat gear
I know about AWS. That said they actually have a pedigree of making equipment for CAG and SF guys, not just airsoft gear with questionable QC.
>>30077427
that SCAR mmm
>>30079537
The special forces have a massive support operation in the states, they could give less of a fuck if they are outed if one of them are killed. Those bodies are coming back if they have to firebomb the roaches.
>>30084573
Everything pissing off the roach is to advocate
>>30084270
Good thing Armenia isn't in NATO
>>30077281
as long as kurds dying im happy with it
>inb4 turk, i hate them too but i hate kurds more
>>30084573
And not a single fuck was given, Fuck turkey.
>>30084752
>that pic
more like the "why we should kick Turkey out of NATO and erase it from all maps" starterpack
>>30084752
>Thread about US SF operating together with Kurds, for an independent Kurdistan
>fag posts some bullshit about his love for dead Kurds in bad English
just gtfo u idiot
>>30084752
Roach detected.
>>30081963
>when an operator asked for protection, that's what the woman gave him
>>30085046
>>30085079
go back to donkeyfucking kurd rats lol, turkey gonna keep removing you and noone will care like they never did
>>30085065
donkeyfucker pls
>>30085512
>>30085523
Please god no, not this faggot again. Listen Yuropoor, just fuck off. I'm sure you have work on the fields to do.
Noone here is a Kurd. Just accept the fact that this is a board for freedom loving Americans, who support the YPG and the Kurds against ISIS and Turkey.
>>30085523
>goat- und donkeyfucker calling Kurds donkeyfuckers
oh the irony
>>30085512
I'm American.
The Kurds have consistently been a better ally to my country than the Turks have.
The Turks ship weapons to ISIS, the Kurds kill ISIS.
Turkey refused to allow US forces to pass through their country during the Iraq War, the Kurds gave us an entire front.
As far as we can tell, Turks are kebab. Kurds are little brown Americans.
>>30085659
The thumbnail made him look like he had a Hulk Hogan 'stache.
He looks good with it.
>>30085659
m8 ur on /k/ not /pol
>>30079890
You actually need to be a permanent resident of the UK to enlist in any of the UK armed forces. I was interested in attending the PRMC, but I didn't feel like living in the UK for five years for a shot. They changed it a few years back. It sucks man.
>>30080457
Do you also post on /pol/, or do all roaches just sound the same?
>>30077800
Why is that guy wearing Chinese camo?
>>30085558
>The Turks ship weapons to ISIS, the Kurds kill ISIS.
They don't you Russia Today watching autist. They support their own rebels in Syria just like the USA does.
>Turkey refused to allow US forces to pass through their country during the Iraq War
Right and that was such a great idea.
>As far as we can tell, Turks are kebab. Kurds are little brown Americans.
You realize there's different Kurdish groups right
>>30086079
>They don't
Oy vey, so new troops, and weapons, and supply caravans are just magically teleporting in and out of IS territory. Praise Allah for his wonders.
>>30086221
Nice meme response
>>30086079
>>30086255
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_terrorism#Turkey
I'm sorry, I don't see any reason why Americans should side the Turkey over the Kurds.
Especially now that Ergodan is pulling his best Hugo Chavez impression, except with Islamism instead of communism.
>>30077427
is the guy on the left this guy?
>>30086079
>They don't you Russia Today watching autist. They support their own rebels in Syria just like the USA does.
Don't be so deslusional, ofc Turkey is supporting ISIS with weapons and supplies. They are interested in the downfall of Al-Assad and the Annihilation of YPG Kurds in Syria, and their greatest ally is fucking Da'ish. They also support FSA groups, but there's not that a big difference between maaaany FSA groups and Da'ish. Many FSA fighters join Da'ish.
>>30086564
Turkey USA and even Russia now is supporting the FSA
You realize that Assad was at a point buying ISIS oil? That doesn't mean he's supporting ISIS, no country is supporting ISIS.
