During the Russian invasion in 2008 we had to fly the Georgian brigade home from Iraq, minus their heavy equipment of course. Think about that. Their best fighting force was fighting for us when their homelnd was invaded by the successor to the Red Army

Sir, they were in combat in west Diyala under my command at the time. It was the same unit we had trained in Tbilisi prior to their deployment & they went from one battlefield to another. The Georgian Commander later lost his legs to an IED in another NATO tour in Afghanistan. https://t.co/t2yVkNWolJ

— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) July 18, 2018