[DailyMail] - John Duttenhofer of Colorado, traveled to Syria last April to fight ISIS alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, in ISIS' de-facto capital, Raqqa
- The former customer service worker, 24, said that playing first-person shooter games, including Call of Duty, helped prepare him for combat
- He said he learned basic combat skills and knowledge of weapons from games
- Duttenhofer arrived in Syria in April 2017, where he was taught basic Kurdish
- He later joined a sniper group in Raqqa, and provided backup for other troops
- He left Syria in October 2017 after the tragic death of his comrade, Jack Homes
- Now that he's home he wants to eat ice cream and 'smoke as much pot as I can'
- While the State Department strongly advises against Americans traveling to Syria, there are no legal consequences to volunteering to fight ISIS with Kurdish and Syrian militias.
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