https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/c78bdc8b-c491-472c-8558-9dbce4fd5f29 https://utreon.com/c/forgottenweapons/ http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons http://www.floatplane.com/channel/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.forgottenweapons.com I'm excited today to speak with Neal Vermillion, a US Army veteran (2002-2006) who served contracts in Kurdistan (2016) and Ukraine (2022) for the nonprofit PMC Sons of Liberty International. In Kurdistan he was a volunteer training and fighting with a group of Kurds around Erbil and Mosul. In Ukraine, he trained Ukrainian snipers and other troops. Today we are specifically talking about the different small arms that were (and are) being used in Kurdistan and Ukraine. From Turkish starter pistols to handmade anti material rifles, the fight against ISIS in Kurdistan saw it all. Ukraine today is seeing a similarly wide variety of small arms, although generally much more effective...unless you are a guy like Neil who gets issued an M14! 00:47 - Neil's basic background 02:31 - Guns of the Peshmerga 23:07 - Guns of Ukraine Follow Neil on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/thecombataccountant/ . Neil's shirt in the video is here, if you want one yourself: https://www.saintjavelin.com/en-us/products/tryzub-saint-javelin-adult-tshirt Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:16:58 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/c78bdc8b-c491-472c-8558-9dbce4fd5f29 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.