How a guy from Jersey landed on the front lines in Syria fighting ISIS

[TomSea]

How a guy from Jersey landed on the front lines in Syria fighting ISIS
Updated on September 16, 2017 at 9:43 AM Posted on September 16, 2017 at 7:00 AM

By Ted Sherman
tsherman@njadvancemedia.com,

NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

SEA BRIGHT -- Anthony DelGatto served in the U.S. military, but never thought he did much that mattered.

"It was logistics. Nothing elite," he said, brushing off his time as an airman in the Air Force and later the Air National Guard. "When I was in basic, I had fired a weapon. But never in combat."

That was before the 38-year-old Sea Bright man walked into Syria one dark night this past February to join a Kurdish militia and fight ISIS.

Now back home after four months in a deadly war zone that killed two Americans who were there with him, DelGatto said he went because he felt compelled "to do something," counting up terror incidents around the world and the gruesome stories of what ISIS has done in places where it has seized control.

"There were these people hitting us. They want to kill us," he said.

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Good, lengthy story.

[Oceander]

Crazy story.