A Central Ohio man who volunteered to help fight ISIS in Iraq, has been injured by enemy fire.

Ryan Gueli, of Carroll, served for a year in Iraq, with the U.S. Army.

Gueli’s father, Johnny, told NBC4 that his son returned home with the strong desire to go back to the battle ground and assist the Kurds.

Gueli was one of a handful of Americans assisting the Kurds in the fight against ISIS.

This week, Gueli said he was struck by mortar fire and thrown several yards in the air.

In a Facebook interview with NBC4, Gueli described the attack.

“We were falling back Isis was using drones to call in mortor fire it was very accurate. Very very accurate…. Our attack was stalled they used a pincer movement to flank us,” Gueli wrote. “I jumped a berm and slid down into a dried up pond took a few steps and then I was thrown through the air. My buddy said it damn near hit me in the head. But it through me a few meters and I got up like I’m good and I took off ran maybe 50 meters and realized I was bleeding. We were getting shot at and more mortor fire so I just kept running I felt weak ran through some milkweed and up another berm then collapsed. The only medical kit I had left was my tourniquet BC I used all my bandages treating peshmarga wounded earlier. So i applied that to my right thigh. I couldn’t get back up I was deciding how I wanted to die. I laugh about it now but I was thinking man I dont wanna rest my chin on the muzzle of my ak BC its hot and that would burn lol. But an Iraqi police officer grabbed me and he spoke English. He helped me up and another peshmarga soldier grabbed my other arm and the three of us walked 250 meters to our line.”

Gueli described his injuries as “simple wounds” to his calf and leg.

If given the opportunity, Gueli wrote there are two reason why he would gladly return to Iraq to assist the Kurds.

“When I was in the army it was just my sense of duty,” he wrote. “My friends were hurt there so I wanted to keep fighting Now I’m here for the Kurdish people who have been gassed murdered tortured and when the Iraqi army ran away they stood alone against Isis and fight every day. I respect the Kurdish ppl so much they are kind generous respectful honestly they best people I’ve ever met and they are a light of hope in the middle east. The second part of it is Isis is a cancer on the world and it is every honorable mans responsibility to fight against evil. If you don’t you leave that evil to prey soon your children. And hell we dont fight them here we will have to fight them in our back yard. In our schools our stores. I can’t except that.”

Gueli is expected to return to the United States, on Sunday.

There is no word on how long it will take him to recover from his injuries.