Jordan Matson

Jordan Matson is a former U.S. Army infantryman and one of the first foreign volunteers to fight within the People's Protection Units also known as the YPG (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Gel) in Rojava, north Syria. Originally from Sturtevant, Wisconsin; Jordan left for Rojava/north Syria to fight ISIS in October 2014. His reasons for doing so include dissatisfaction in his marriage but mainly as a result of his frustration at the inaction by the U.S. government and the wider world. Matson told Fox6Now that he had grown up wanting to join the military, and that "I was just done with it. Just done with watching these people die.  And nothing being done about it". After being refused enlistment in the US military, he decided that he still wanted to contribute militarily to serving his country.

Matson fought in Shingal, Iraq and Tell Tamer, in northeastern Syria.

Matson currently lives in Sweden with his wife and son, Roza Yildirim and Kosta Leonidas Matson, who was named after Kostandinos Erik Scurfield. Kostandinos Scurfield was a former British Royal Marine who became the first U.K. national to be killed fighting ISIS units in Syria.