Telemark Battalion is an elite armored Norwegian Army infantry unit . Soldiers known for wearing patches with Marvel character 's skull ##s . Antihero from comic series is vigilante who slaughters criminals . Patches honour comrade killed by a roadside bomb in 2003 . Fifty soldiers will travel to Irbil in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces . Peshmerga troops are engaged in bitter armed struggle with Kurdish State .
Telemark Battalion is an elite mechanised Norwegian Army infantry unit . Soldiers known for wearing patches with Marvel character 's skull emblem . Antihero from comic series is vigilante who slaughters criminals . Patches honour comrade killed by Taliban roadside bomb in Afghanistan . Fifty fighters will travel to Irbil in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces . Peshmerga troops are locked in bitter armed struggle with Islamic State .