this is an exaggeration. you think british, US military goes through boy's scouts training? maybe you should ask
@jhungary about how his basic training went let alone his military experience and take a good look at his posting history to see if he's acting like a 12 year old boy who drank some alcohol for the first time on an internet forum.
I actually thought about it a while before I engage in this post as the first act after I came back after I temporary left this forum for some work with the Australian Government. (Which I cannot tell you anything about it, I had sign a gag order....)
To me, why I am hesitate to reply to this post is because this seems like a lost clause, and I am actually against militia operation like the YPG for a different reason, I don't want to come out as I am supporting the militia movement. You will understand after you finish the whole post.
For a combat vet, the first thing you know is to appreciate your enemy, you respect them, in fact, everyone pick up arms to fight their clause whether it is with you are against you have to be respected, especially your enemy, and especially against the US Military. They know you are strong, they know they probably will die trying to kill you, but yet they still have to guts to do that and go thru that, you cannot disrespect that.
People who never serve in the frontline, or people who are too patriotic is not good in an combat situation, if you let that hatred clouded your judgement, you will not function as a professional soldier, you may get yourself killed, or worse, got someone else killed because of that. As an officer, you always need to stay a cool headed mentality, if you are too patriotic about something, you usually won't stayed cool, just look at this thread and you will see.
That is my view about the military and war.
Now onto the militia stuff, I get it if you want to do something for your clause, and I won't stop you or in this case, a British lady who have nothing to do with a battle she is going to fight if I was in a position to do, but I do not encourage people joining fights like this solely because they, the militia, aren't really professional army and that British lady wasn't a professional soldier either, and fighting a war is not something you can learn, because the learning curve of fighting a war is either you make it or you died, and there are no summer class or replacement exam for it. I mean, we didn't go thru 13 weeks of basic training just sit around doing nothing, and people who join these militia group have less or hardly any training at all. Which mean for me, this is a one way suicide mission.
There are other way to support your clause, I just don't recommend this type of militia work, true, it make a good story, but at the end of the day, it's your life, and that seems like a high risk gamble to me.