page_title: Defense Forces of Georgia
section_title: Force composition
hierarchical_section_title: Defense Forces of Georgia / Structure / Branches / Force composition
caption_attribution_description: Hohenfels, GERMANY - A soldier from the Republic of Georgia’s 32nd Light Infantry Battalion esprovides security during a Situational Training Exercise lane at Europe’s premiere training site, the Joint Multinational Readiness Center at Hohenfels, Germany. Georgian soldiers were participating in a mission-rehearsal exercise for their upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. U.S. Marine advisors and enablers, who will deploy with the unit to combat, worked side by side with their counterparts during the exercise. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua E. Leonard)
context_page_description: The Defense Forces of Georgia, or Georgian Defense Forces, known as the Georgian Armed Forces until December 2018, are the combined military forces of Georgia, tasked with the defense of the nation’s independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. They consist of the Land Force, Air Force, National Guard, and Special Operations Forces. The Defense Forces are under overall leadership of the Minister of Defense of Georgia and directly headed by the Chief of Defense Forces.
  The first regular military was established in the first Georgian Republic in 1918 and was in existence until after the republic's overthrow by the invading Soviet Russian forces in 1921. The modern Georgian military were founded in accordance with the government decree of 24 April 1991. 30 April, the day when the first conscripts were called up for military service in 1991, has been celebrated as the day of the Georgian military forces.
  The Georgian military have fought in the civil war and separatist conflicts in the 1990s and the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 as well as major international military missions such as in Iraq and Afghanistan.
context_section_description: HQ, Land Forces Command (Tbilisi)
  Central Command Point
   Operational Command East
  1st Infantry Brigade (Tbilisi)
  11th Light Infantry Battalion
  12th Light Infantry Battalion - NRF
  13th Light Infantry Battalion
  4th Mechanized Infantry Brigade (Vaziani)
  41st Mechanized Infantry Battalion
  42nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion
  43rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion
  5th Artillery Brigade (Vaziani)
  Special Operations Battalion East
  Combat Engineer Battalion
   Operational Command West
  2nd Infantry Brigade (Senaki)
  21st Light Infantry Battalion
  22nd Light Infantry Battalion
  23rd Light Infantry Battalion
  3rd Infantry Brigade (The Mamelukes) (Kutaisi)
  31st Light Infantry Battalion
  32nd Light Infantry Battalion
  33rd Light Infantry Battalion
  6th Artillery Brigade (Khoni)
  Special Operations Battalion West
  Combat Engineer Battalion
  Medical Company
  Separate Communications Company
caption: Soldiers of the 32nd Battalion conducting pre-deployment training, 2012
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